The complete online text of The Poetry of Architecture by John Ruskin.

The English critic and social theorist John Ruskin (1819-1900) more than any other man shaped the esthetic values and tastes of Victorian England. His writings combine enormous sensitivity and human compassion with a burning zeal for moral value. John Ru...

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not, in fact, too much to say that his is the most important body of art...

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not, in fact, too much to say that his is the most important body of art...

Sir John Soane (1753-1837), builder's son and bricklayer from Goring, Berkshire, designed some of the most imaginative buildings and interiors not just of his age, but of all time. His Bank of England, begun in 1788 (spoilt from the 1920s) was his grandest work,...

A.W. Johnson's book is in the honorable tradition of Sister Arts studies, and it is a free representative of the genre. He presents convincing evidence of the importance of architecture as subject and as metaphor in Jonson's work, and shows (chiefly by counting...