A history of Venetian architecture that reads the city’s rise and fall in its stones, culminating in the celebrated chapter “The Nature of Gothic.” Ruskin’s praise of the free medieval craftsman inspired the Arts and Crafts movement and William Morris.
Sources for John Ruskin — The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin — The Stones of Venice in Visual Art
Held in the Visual Art chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
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