Contemporary reviews of john ruskin's 'the seven lamps of architecture', the
Auteur :
Brownell, Robert
Éditeur :
Pallas Athene Publishers
ISBN :
9781843681410
Date de publication :
4 nov. 2017
Dimensions :
21,7 x 14,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
When The Seven Lamps of Architecture was published in 1849, in a society where new books on Gothic architecture sold like novels, it created an immediate sensation. The book was to found John Ruskin's reputation as Britain's foremost architectural critic. But there was some perplexity about what he had meant by what he had written.