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 marvellously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."
About the AuthorJohn Ruskin wrote over forty volumes of art and architecture criticism during the nineteenth century. J. G. Links is the author of Venice for Pleasure.
Book InformationISBN 9780306812866
Author John RuskinFormat Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette Books
Weight(grams) 322g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm * 16mm