Ruskin's Venice : the stones revisited / compiled and with photographs by Sarah Quill ; with introductions by Alan Windsor.

Main entry:

Quill, Sarah.

Title & Author:

Ruskin's Venice : the stones revisited / compiled and with photographs by Sarah Quill ; with introductions by Alan Windsor.

Publication:

[Aldershot, England] ; [Brookfield, Vt.] : Ashgate, 2000.

Description:

206 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes correspondence by John Ruskin.
Includes bibliographical references (page 202) and index.
Alan Windsor -- Before 'The Stones' 30 -- The Stones of Venice: Byzantine 41 -- The Stones of Venice: Gothic 76 -- The Stones of Venice: Renaissance 144 -- After 'The Stones' 180.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Of the many foreign travellers who have written about Venice there is none to surpass John Ruskin, the great nineteenth century writer, artist and critic, whose massive three-volume work The Stones of Venice (1851-3) remains one of the most influential books on art and architecture ever written." "Sarah Quill has compiled an illustrated guide to The Stones of Venice, linking Ruskin's descriptions of individual buildings with a contemporary photographic record of the architecture and sculpture as it is seen today. This abridgement excludes interiors and paintings, concentrating on the exterior architecture sculpture of Venice, all of which may be seen from the street or from the water without entering a building. Much of Ruskin's splendid prose is reproduced, together with many of his drawings and watercolours and a number of nineteenth-century engravings of the period. More than 200 photographs taken by Sarah Quill during the last years of the twentieth century identify the details described by Ruskin and show the extent to which the city's architecture has survived, or changed, since publication of The Stones of Venice 150 years before."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1840146974
9781840146974

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Stones of Venice.
Ruskin, John. Pierres de Venice.
Ruskin, John, (1819-1900)
Architecture Italy Venice.
Architectural photography Italy Venice.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Italy Venice.
Art Italy Venice.
Art, Italian Italy Venice.
Architecture Italie Venise.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Italie Venise.
Art Italie Venise.
Art italien Italie Venise.
Photographie d'architecture Italie Venise.
Architectural photography.
Architecture.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture Italie Venise (Italie)
Art Italie Venise (Italie) Ouvrages illustrés.
Venise (Italie) Ouvrages illustrés.
Italy Venice.

Form/genre:

Correspondence.
illustrated books.
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Quill, Sarah
Windsor, Alan

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212353
Call No.: NA2599.8.R956 R82 2000
Status: Available

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