The Works of John Ruskin 39 Volume Paperback Set: The Works of John Ruskin Volume 9: The Stones of Venice I (Cambridge Library Collection - Works of John Ruskin)
Cambridge University Press, 10/1/2010
EAN 9781108008570, ISBN10: 1108008577
Paperback, 600 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm
Language: English
The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This ninth volume contains Volume 1 of The Stones of Venice.
Introduction
Bibliographical note
Author's prefaces
The Stones of Venice, Vol. I
1. The quarry
2. The virtues of architecture
3. The six divisions of architecture
4. The wall base
5. The wall veil
6. The wall cornice
7. The pier base
8. The shaft
9. The capital
10. The arch link
11. The arch masonry
12. The arch load
13. The roof
14. The roof cornice
15. The buttress
16. Form of aperture
17. Filling of aperture
18. Protection of aperture
19. Superimposition
20. The material of ornament
21. Treatment of ornament
22. The angle
23. The edge and fillet
24. The roll and recess
25. The base
26. The wall veil and shaft
27. The cornice and capital
28. The archivolt and aperture
29. The roof
30. The vestibule
Author's appendix.