John Ruskin "The Stones of Venice" St Mark's Literary discussion animation

Heres a virtual movie of the great Victorian English art critic and social thinker John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) discussing "St Marks in Venice" from his work that has influenced generations of great architects to this day "The Stones of Venice" 1851 - 1853.his three-volume collection of essays on Venetian art and architecture.The Stones of Venice is John Ruskin's original three-volume masterpiece on Venetian art and architecture, first published from 1851-53. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ruskin examined the city in considerable detail, describing for example over eighty churches. He discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city as well. The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by Kelmscott Press. First page of text, with ornamented borderThe book aroused considerable interest in Victorian Britain and beyond. The chapter "The Nature of Gothic" was admired by William Morris, who published it separately in an edition which is in itself an example of Gothic revival. John Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, both argued that architecture cannot be separated from morality, and that the "Decorated Gothic" style was the highest form of architecture yet achieved

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as a poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Ruskin first came to widespread attention for his support for the work of J. M. W. Turner and his defence of naturalism in art. He subsequently put his weight behind the Pre-Raphaelite movement. His later writings turned increasingly to complex and personal explorations of the interconnection of cultural, social and moral issues, and were influential on the development of Christian socialism. Early life and education Ruskin was born in London and raised in South London, the only child of a wine importer who co-founded the company that became Allied Domecq. He was educated at home and went on to study at King's College London and Christ Church, Oxford. At Oxford, he enrolled as a "gentleman-commoner", a class of students who were not expected to pursue a full course of study. His own studies were erratic, and he was often absent. However, he impressed the scholars of Christ Church after he won the Newdigate prize for poetry, his earliest interest. In consequence and despite a protracted period of serious illness, Oxford awarded him an honorary fourth-class degree.

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