Ruskin on Venice: “The Paradise of Cities”

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Venice represented John Ruskin’s ideal of civic society—“The Paradise of Cities,” where culture, government, and faith existed in creative harmony. On this elegant and compelling book, Robert Hewison traces Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with town. He shows how Ruskin shed his in advance Romantic vision of town and developed a harder, clearer conception of neglected Gothic Venice through an intense study of town’s physical fabric that would change the international figuring out of town.

Drawing at the wealthy resources of Ruskin’s drawings, architectural notebooks, and manuscripts (including up to now unpublished daguerreotypes from Ruskin’s own collection), Hewison offers fresh insights into both Ruskin and nineteenth-century Venice and reveals how Ruskin’s work and his connection with town from youth to old age have helped to shape the picture of the Venice we all know lately.

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