The most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's social criticism shocked and angered the establishment and many of his admirers.

First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his...

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."

-I believe architecture must be the beginning of arts, and that the others must follow her in their time and order; and I think the prosperity of our schools of painting and sculpture, in which no one will deny the life, though many the health, depends upon that of our architecture.- -- John Ruskin.
In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a work that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, it was far more than...

John Ruskin wrote more than half a million words on Venice. This is an abridged version of his opus, which still contains the essence of his original work, for those who would appreciate Venice, architecture and Ruskin's fine writing.

Mornings in Florence is a tour of one of the worlds most beautiful cities by John Ruskin. John Ruskin was born in England in 1819. He was a critic of art, architecture and society. He was a Victorian sage and gifted painter. He goal with his writings was to cause widespread cultural and social change. This combination of the religious intensity of the Evangelical Revival and the artistic excitement of English Romantic painting laid the foundations of Ruskins later views. The Encyclopedia Britannica sums up Ruskin as follows. "Ruskin has gradually been rediscovered. His formative...

John Ruskin's reflections on Amiens Cathedral's wonderful retelling of the Bible in sculpture. A book much loved by Proust.

John Ruskin, wrote and lectured on a wide variety of subjects -- Art, Architecture, Economics and Sociology, and the natural world. This volume is a collection of Ruskin's work on Geology and Mineralogy. fully illustrated with 23 full page illustrations and as well ss many drawings within the text.

John Ruskin, Grossbritanniens wohl einflussreichster Kunstkritiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, verffentlichte zwei Jahre vor seinem Tod im Jahr 1888 eine Reihe von Vorlesungen ber Kunst. Die Vortrge ber Kunst waren im Zeitraum der Jahre 1870 bis 1875 im Zusammenhang mit Ruskins Ttigkeit als Professor an der Universitt Oxford entstanden und beschftigen sich u. a. mit den Themen Licht, Farbe, Kunst und Moral. Ruskins Werk ist allgemeinhin fr seine Sprachgewandtheit bekannt, die Lektre der Vorlesungen ist deshalb nicht nur fr den rein wissenschaftlichen Gebrauch hochinteressant. Nachdruck der...

John Ruskins The Stones of Venice, first published in 1851-3, is a magisterial work examining in detail the architecture of Venice, describing, for example, over 80 churches from the Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods. The book met with popular appreciation in Victorian England, and various editions of it have been produced over time.

John Ruskin, Grossbritanniens wohl einflussreichster Kunstkritiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, veroffentlichte zwei Jahre vor seinem Tod im Jahr 1888 eine Reihe von Vorlesungen uber Kunst. Die "Vortrage uber Kunst" waren im Zeitraum der Jahre 1870 bis 1875 im Zusammenhang mit Ruskins Tatigkeit als Professor an der Universitat Oxford entstanden und beschaftigen sich u. a. mit den Themen "Licht," "Farbe," "Kunst und Moral." Ruskins Werk ist allgemeinhin fur seine Sprachgewandtheit bekannt, die Lekture der Vorlesungen ist deshalb nicht nur fur den rein wissenschaftlichen Gebrauch hochinteressant....