The Stones of Venice
Seiten
2005
Pallas Athene Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-873429-45-7 (ISBN)
Pallas Athene Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-873429-45-7 (ISBN)
John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever, and it transformed architecture forever. This abridged version still contains the original’s essence.
The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who went there and thousands who did not, it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under threat, and transformed the study and practice of architecture for ever.
It took Ruskin almost half a million words to launch his devastating attack on the Renaissance – ‘the school which has conducted men’s inventive and constructional faculties from the Grand Canal to Gower Street’ and to explain how to see and make true architecture. They were ‘glorious words, but too many,’ as J. G. Links put it while preparing this edition. Links, himself the greatest exponent of Venice of the 20th century, designed this abridgement to convey all the excitement, urgency, love of Venice and unmatchedly beautiful prose to a new generation of readers.
The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who went there and thousands who did not, it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under threat, and transformed the study and practice of architecture for ever.
It took Ruskin almost half a million words to launch his devastating attack on the Renaissance – ‘the school which has conducted men’s inventive and constructional faculties from the Grand Canal to Gower Street’ and to explain how to see and make true architecture. They were ‘glorious words, but too many,’ as J. G. Links put it while preparing this edition. Links, himself the greatest exponent of Venice of the 20th century, designed this abridgement to convey all the excitement, urgency, love of Venice and unmatchedly beautiful prose to a new generation of readers.
BOOK ONE
I. The Quarry 3
II. The Virtues of Architecture 17
III. The Six Divisions of Architecture 27
IV. The Wall Base 31
V. The Wall Veil 36
VI. The Wall Cornice 39
VII. The Arch 49
VIII. The Roof 62
IX. The Buttress 17
X. Superimposition 71
XI. The Material of Ornament 81
XII. Treatment of Ornament 17
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BOOK TWO
Part One: The Byzantine Period
I. The Throne 103
II. Torcello 111
III. St. Mark’s 119
Part Two: The Gothic Period
IV. The Nature of Gothic 135
V. The Ducal Palace 165
Part Three: The Renaissance Period
VI. Early Renaissance 197
VII. Roman Renaissance 205
VIII. Grotesque Renaissance 209
IX. Conclusion 217
Notes on Plates 223
Index 241
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.5.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 50 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 330 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
| Reiseführer ► Europa ► Italien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-873429-45-2 / 1873429452 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-873429-45-7 / 9781873429457 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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