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 expressed in this text. This edition contains Ruskin's essay "The Nature of Gothic", a descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration.

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

"For the lover of Venice...but above all for the lover of fine writing."J. G. Links