This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...so now it was his feeling that the charm of Venice was evanescent, his sight of the daily mouldering and rending of its walls, that drove him to postpone the completion of Moder n Painters once more, until he had deciphered and imparted the lessons of the Stones of Venice. The title--as was often the case with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...so now it was his feeling that the charm of Venice was evanescent, his sight of the daily mouldering and rending of its walls, that drove him to postpone the completion of Moder n Painters once more, until he had deciphered and imparted the lessons of the Stones of Venice. The title--as was often the case with Ruskin--had a double meaning. He hoped to make those Stones touchstones--tests of the good and the bad in all architecture; crucial examples, too, of the connection between national feeling and national architecture. But also it was from a city fast falling into ruin that his teaching was to be drawn: "Thy servants think upon their stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust." The prophet had no time to lose in uttering his message, for the waves were gaining fast against the Stones Of Venice. I There was destined, however--as not unusually with Ruskin's eager undertakings--to be some delay. The Seven Lamps was published in May 1849; The Stones of Venice was not completed till October 1853. The principal cause of the delay was the unexpected difficulty and complexity of the task, to which may be added the conscientious minuteness of the author's studies. He returned from his holiday among the mountains on September 16 and found his wife, now much better in health, awaiting him at Denmark Hill. Early in October he set out with her, bound for Venice. He showed her Chamouni on the way, and they went slowly through North Italy, arriving in November in Venice, where they established themselves at the Hotel Danieli for the winter. This sojourn lasted from November to March, and FIRST VENETIAN WINTER: 1849-50 257 like another sojourn two years later (Sept. 1, 1851-June 29, CHAP, 1852), was for Ruskin a period of unremitting toil....
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