1851. With illustrations. Ruskin, the greatest Victorian bar Victoria, was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the preeminent art critic of his time. This is the first in his three-volume masterpiece on Venetian art and architecture. Here he intends to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Ruskin examines Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods and provides a general history of the city as well. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.