Lectures on Architecture and Painting collects four lectures John Ruskin delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853. In them he urges the revival of Gothic architecture, attacks the lifeless classicism of his day, and offers a celebrated defense of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, whose truth to nature he had championed in the press.
Delivered with Ruskin’s characteristic eloquence and conviction, the lectures bring his ideas about architecture and painting to a general audience and connect questions of style to broader concerns of honesty, nature, and national character. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.