TY - BOOK AU - Ruskin,John TI - The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), AV - NA PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Architecture -- Italy -- Venice N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stones_of_Venice_(book); Release date is 2009-12-31; E-text prepared by Marius Masi, Juliet Sutherland, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3)" by John Ruskin is a treatise published in 1853. This volume examines Venetian architecture across Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods, detailing over eighty churches while providing cultural history. In the famous chapter "The Nature of Gothic," Ruskin interweaves architectural analysis with social commentary, arguing that workers and thinkers should unite rather than remain divided. The work profoundly influenced Gothic Revival architecture and thinkers like William Morris and Marcel Proust. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30755 ER -