John Ruskin

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Treatise on architecture defending principles of structural integrity and artistic beauty

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John Ruskin
John Ruskin

British art critic and social thinker whose Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice transformed how the Victorians saw art and architecture. His social criticism in Unto This Last attacked Victorian capitalism's human cost with passionate intensity. He influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and the Arts and Crafts movement.

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