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The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. The Stones of Venice examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches.
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The Stones of Venice, treatise on architecture by John Ruskin. It was published in three volumes in 1851–53. Ruskin wrote the work in order to apply to the architecture of Venice the general principles enunciated in his The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
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THE STONES OF VENICE . CHAPTER I. [FIRST OF THE OLD EDITION.] THE QUARRY. SECTION I. Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great . powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin ...
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31 de dic. de 2009 · The remains of their Venice lie hidden behind the cumbrous masses which were the delight of the nation in its dotage; hidden in many a grass-grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal, where the slow waves have sapped their foundations for five hundred years, and must soon prevail over them for ever.
The Stones of Venice. John Ruskin. Moyer Bell, 1989 - Architecture - 239 pages. John Ruskin, the most influential Victorian art critic, was always fascinated by the melancholy beauty of Venice.
"More than simply a survey of an ancient city's most significant buildings, The Stones of Venice, first published in three volumes between 1851 and 1853, is an expression of a philosophy of art,...
A central figure in the nineteenth-century international art scene, a writer, painter and art critic, John Ruskin (1819-1900) had a very strong bond with Venice, to which he dedicated his most famous literary work, “The stones of Venice”: a study of Venice’s architecture, examined and described in the most minute detail, and a paean to ...
