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Title: Lectures on Architecture and Painting
Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: November 22, 2007 [EBook #23593]

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN

STONES OF VENICE
VOLUME III

GIOTTO
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE
HARBOURS OF ENGLAND
A JOY FOREVER

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN

VOLUME X

GIOTTO AND HIS WORKS
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE
THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART
(A JOY FOREVER)

LECTURES
ON
ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING
DELIVERED AT EDINBURGH
IN NOVEMBER, 1853.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
PREFACE v

LECTURE I.

ARCHITECTURE 1

LECTURE II.

ARCHITECTURE 34

ADDENDA TO LECTURES I. AND II. 56

LECTURE III.

TURNER AND HIS WORKS 75

LECTURE IV.

PRE-RAPHAELITISM 100

ADDENDA TO LECTURE IV. 123

LIST OF PLATES.

Facing Page
PLATE I. Figs. 1. 3. and 5. Illustrative diagrams 3
" II. " 2. Windows in Oakham Castle 5
" III. " 4. and 6. Spray of ash-tree, and improvement
of the same on Greek principles 10
" IV. " 7. Window in Dunblane Cathedral 15
" V. " 8. Mediaeval turret 20
" VI. " 9. and 10. Lombardic tow