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The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin

Ruskin wrote the work in order to apply to the architecture of Venice the general principles enunciated in his The Seven Lamps of Architecture. He discusses architecture and its functional and ornamental aspects and presents a brief history of Venice. Then Ruskin discusses the Byzantine period and the climactic development of Venetian life, its Gothic period. Finally Ruskin puts forth his thesis that the onset of the Renaissance caused the city’s architectural decline. Ruskin contended that Gothic architecture expressed “a state of pure national faith, and…domestic virtue” while Renaissance architecture expressed “concealed national infidelity, and…domestic corruption.”

Features;

• Folio Society Sixth Printing No. 1079
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2010
• Light Brown Hardback, 350 pp
• Paintings by Ruskin and other engravings
• Size 250 x 190mm, 2kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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