...FRSE Third Edition. Demy Svo, Sewed. Price is. John Ruskin : his Life and Work. BY WILLIAM SMART, MA ' "Modern Painters," the " Seven Lamps of Architecture," and the " Stones of Venice " will last as long as our language for their beauty of style, their elevating criticism, and the grasp...

...FRSE Third Edition. Demy Svo, Sewed. Price is. John Ruskiii: his Life and Work. BY WILLIAM SMART, MA ' "Modern Painters," the " Seven Lamps of Architecture," and the "Stones of Venice " will last as long as our language for their beauty of style, their elevating criticism, and the grasp...

...ascribed to him speaks in every line. He writes like a consecrated Priest of the Abstract and Ideal." " Modern Painters," " The Seven Lamps of Architecture," and the "Stones of Venice" are Mr. Ruskin's most important works, but he has written much besides. "Unto tins Last," four essays...

...time to time the results of his investigations in a series of well-known volumes and brochures. His Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, and The Stones of Venice are his principal works. His style is original, masterly, and of rare beauty. Its chief defect is a...

...results. In spite of all talk to the contrary, the public at large will stick to the first volumes of the Modern Painters, the "Seven Lamps of Architecture" and "The Stones of Venice " as the author's masterpieces. When therefore, we are told that he himself is dissatisfied with these...

...results. In spite of all talk to the contrary, the public at large will stick to the first volumes of the Modern Painters, the "Seven Lamps of Architecture" and "The Stones of Venice " as the author's masterpieces. When therefore, we are told that he himself is dissatisfied with these...

...Oxford, and studied the pictorial art under Copley Fielding and JD Harding. His principal works are his " Modern Painters," " The Seven Lamps of Architecture," and " The Stones of Venice."] JT is a strange thing how little, in general, people know about the sky. It is the part of creation...

...Edition.) Portrait. pp. vi— 446. Routledge. 3/6. Ruskin (John), The Ruskin Reader: Being Passages from "Modern Painters," "The Seven Lamps of Architecture " and "The Stones of Venice." pp. vi— 216. G. Allen. 2/6. — The Harbours of England. With 13 Illusts. by JMW Turner. Edit. by...

...public found nothing 1 Past and Present, book iii. ch. xiii. " Democracy." repugnant or obscure, and " Modern Painters," " The Seven Lamps of Architecture," and " The Stones of Venice " met only enough opposition to impart to their popularity something the ardor of a cult. Social unrest...

...mind. Other works came out one by one, but Mr. Ruskin's teachings were practically summed up in <( Modern Painters," "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," and "The Stones of Venice." At forty-five his career as an art critic closed, though he never ceased to write about art until he...