Contents
Preface
1. Paradise and Madness: John Ruskin's Life
2. Turner and Truth: Modern Painters I
3. Beauty and the Imagination: Modern Painters II
4. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
5. Pre-Raphaelitism and the Edinburgh Lectures
6. Building Blocks: The Stones of Venice I
7. Byzantium and the Goths: The Stones of Venice II
8. The Trouble with the Renaissance: The Stones of Venice III
9. Return to Venice
10. The Varieties of Art: Modern Painters III
11. Depicting the Cosmos: Modern Painters IV
12. The Rose and the Worm: Modern Painters V
13. The Political Economy of Art and Other Critical Matters
14. University with a Difference: The Oxford Lectures
15. From Tuscany to the Somme
16. Back to England Again
Conclusion: Final Public Letters, Last Look at a Life
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names