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The Stones of Venice<\/em><\/strong> has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who went there and thousands who did not, it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under threat, and transformed the study and practice of architecture for ever.
\nIt took Ruskin almost half a million words to launch his devastating attack on the Renaissance – ‘the school which has conducted men’s inventive and constructional faculties from the Grand Canal to Gower Street’ and to explain how to see and make true architecture. They were ‘glorious words, but too many,’ as J. G. Links put it while preparing this edition. Links, himself the greatest exponent of Venice of the 20th century, designed this abridgement to convey all the excitement, urgency, love of Venice and unmatchedly beautiful prose to a new generation of readers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever, and it transformed architecture forever. This abridged version still contains the original’s essence.
BOOK ONE
\nI. The Quarry 3
\nII. The Virtues of Architecture 17
\nIII. The Six Divisions of Architecture 27
\nIV. The Wall Base 31
\nV. The Wall Veil 36
\nVI. The Wall Cornice 39
\nVII. The Arch 49
\nVIII. The Roof 62
\nIX. The Buttress 17
\nX. Superimposition 71
\nXI. The Material of Ornament 81
\nXII. Treatment of Ornament 17
\n2
\nBOOK TWO
\nPart One: The Byzantine Period
\nI. The Throne 103
\nII. Torcello 111
\nIII. St. Mark’s 119
\nPart Two: The Gothic Period
\nIV. The Nature of Gothic 135
\nV. The Ducal Palace 165
\nPart Three: The Renaissance Period
\nVI. Early Renaissance 197
\nVII. Roman Renaissance 205
\nVIII. Grotesque Renaissance 209
\nIX. Conclusion 217
\nNotes on Plates 223
\nIndex 241<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48654,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43080","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-john-ruskin","8":"publisher-pallas-athene","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Stones of Venice - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: The Stones of Venice, Pages: 252 Pages, Publish Date: 8th May 2023, Author: John Ruskin, ISBN: 9781873429457. 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