Seven luminaries of architecture. Lectures on art

John Ryskin (1819–1900) is the famous English historian and art theorist, an original and sometimes paradoxical thinker, whose reasoning sometimes fascinates the accuracy of insights. The art of history in his interpretation least resembles an academic course, but it was he who was the first professor of elegant arts of the University of Oxford, with his “performed fiery passion and wonderful music”, in speeches, forcing “deaf ... to hear and blind - to see the testimony of his student Oscar Wilde. The current collection includes the fundamental treatise “Seven Lights of Architecture” (1849), the monumental treatise “Stones of Venice” (1851–1853, the author’s abbreviated edition was based on the translation into Russian), “Lectures on Art” (1870), as well as a kind of peculiar Guide to the flowering capital of the Renaissance Walks in Florence (1875)