For John Ruskin, one of the leading cultural critics of the nineteenth century, Venice represented his ideal of civic society, where culture, government and faith were in creative harmony –‘The Paradise of Cities’. This was not the fallen city of the Renaissance, the Paradise Lost that it became in his lifetime, but the Gothic Eden that he imagined had existed before the sixteenth century.
- ISBN: 978-0-300-12178-0
- Editorial: Yale University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés