Ruskin surveys the great buildings of Venice, applying the principles enunciated in his The Seven Lamps of Architecture in a three-volume treatment. Volume I, The Foundations, presents a short history of the city and discusses architecture's functional and ornamental aspects. There is no better guide to the spiritual and aesthetic pleasures of architecture. Hardcover edition. 21 plates. 72 figures.
Unabridged republication of the fourth edition as published by George Allen, Sunnyside, Kent, 1886.

Table of Contents for The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations

Preface
Chapter I The Quarry
Chapter II The Virtues of Architecture
Chapter III The Six Divisions of Architecture
Chapter IV The Wall Base
Chapter V The Wall Veil
Chapter VI The Wall Cornice
Chapter VII The Pier Base
Chapter VIII The Shaft
Chapter IX The Capital
Chapter X The Arch Line
Chapter XI The Arch Masonry
Chapter XII The Arch Load
Chapter XIII The Roof
Chapter XIV The Roof Cornice
Chapter XV The Buttress
Chapter XVI Form of Aperture
Chapter XVII Filling of Aperture
Chapter XVIII Protection of Aperture
Chapter XIX Superimposition
Chapter XX The Material of Ornament
Chapter XXI Treatment of Ornament
Chapter XXII The Angle
Chapter XXIII The Edge and Fillet
Chapter XXIV The Roll and Recess
Chapter XXV The Base
Chapter XXVI The Wall Veil and Shaft
Chapter XXVII The Cornice and Capital
Chapter XXVIII The Archivolt and Aperture
Chapter XXIX The Roof
Chapter XXX The Vestibule
Appendix
1. Foundation of Venice
2. Power of the Doges
3. Serrar del Consiglio
4. S. Pietro di Castello
5. Papal Power in Venice
6. Renaissance Ornaments
7. Varieties of the Orders
8. The Northern Energy
9. Wooden Churches of the North
10. Church of Alexandria
11. Renaissance Landscape
12. Romanist Modern Art
13. Mr. Ferguson's System
14. Divisions of Humanity
15. Instinctive Judgments
17. Answer to Mr. Garbett
18. Early English Capitals
19. Tombs of St. Anastasia
20. Shafts of the Ducal Palace
21. Ancient Representations of Water
22. Arabian Ornamentation
23. Varieties of Chamfer
24. Renaissance Bases
25. Romanist Decoration of Bases
26. Additional Notes: from the "Travellers' Edition" of "Stones of Venice"

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