[Gutenberg 9804] • Stones of Venice [introductions]
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- Authors
- Ruskin, John
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Tags
- art , history , architecture -- italy -- venice , classics
- ISBN
- 9780306812866
- Date
- 1853-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.20 MB
- Lang
- en
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in *The Stones of Venice*. This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."