The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin and Jan Morris

John Ruskin (1819 to 1900)—The leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. Ruskin's books include: 'Poems', 'The Poetry of Architecture', 'Letters to a College Friend', 'The King of the Golden River, Or the Black Brothers. A Legend of Stiria', 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds', 'Pre-Raphaelitism', 'Letters to the Times on the Pre-Raphaelite Artists', 'Lectures on Architecture and Painting', 'Academy Notes', 'The Harbours of England', 'The Elements of Drawing, In Three Letters to Beginners', ''a Joy Forever' And Its Price in the Market: Being the Substance', 'The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, And Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858–9', 'The Elements of Perspective, Arranged for the Use of Schools and Intended to Be Read in Connection with the First Three Books of Euclid', 'Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy', 'Munera Pulveris: Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy', 'The Cestus of Aglaia', 'Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864', 'The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation', 'The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War', 'Time and Tide, By Weare and Tyne: Twenty-Five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work', 'The Queen of the Air: A Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm', 'Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870', 'Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870', 'Lectures on Landscape, Delivered at Oxford in [Lent Term| Lent Term], 1871', 'Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain', 'The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872', 'Ariadne Florentina': Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, With Appendix, Given Before the University of Oxford, In Michaelmas Term, 1872', 'Love's Meinie: Lectures on Greek and English Birds', 'Val D'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art, Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1873', 'The Aesthetic and Mathematic School of Art in Florence: Lectures Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1874', 'Mornings in Florence: Simple Studies of Christian Art, For English Travellers', 'Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, And Life of Stones', 'Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air Was Yet Pure Among the Alps, And in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew', 'Bibliotheca Pastorum', 'Laws of Fésole: A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and Practice of Drawing and Painting As Determined by the Tuscan Masters', 'St Mark's Rest', 'Fiction, Fair and Foul', 'The Bible of Amiens', 'The Art of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During His Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship', 'The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century: Two Lectures Delivered at the London Institution, February 4 And 11 1884', 'The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During His Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship', 'Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life' and 'Dilecta: Correspondence, Diary Notes, And Extracts From Books, Illustrating 'Praeterita''

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