The Stones of Venice

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 inThe 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."

John Ruskin wrote over forty volumes of art and architecture criticism during the nineteenth century. J. G. Links is the author of Venice for Pleasure.

INTRODUCTION

9

(4)

BOOK ONE

I. THE QUARRY

13

(16)

II. THE VIRTUES OF ARCHITECTURE

29

(11)

III. THE SIX DIVISIONS OF ARCHITECTURE

40

(5)

IV. THE WALL BASE

45

(6)

V. THE WALL VEIL

51

(3)

VI. THE WALL CORNICE

54

(11)

VII. THE ARCH

65

(15)

VIII. THE ROOF

80

(3)

IX. THE BUTTRESS

83

(8)

X. SUPERIMPOSITION

91

(9)

XI. THE MATERIAL OF ORNAMENT

100

(12)

XII. TREATMENT OF ORNAMENT

112

(11)

BOOK TWO

Part One: The Byzantine Period

I. THE THRONE

123

(9)

II. TORCELLO

132

(8)

III. ST. MARK'S

140

(17)

Part Two: The Gothic Period

IV. THE NATURE OR GOTHIC

157

(34)

V. THE DUCAL PALACE

191

(33)

Part Three: The Renaissance Period

VI. EARLY RENAISSANCE

224

VII. ROMAN RENAISSANCE

133

(103)

VIII. GROTESQUE RENAISSANCE

236

(8)

IX. CONCLUSION

244

INDEX

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