Research Catalog

Title

• The seven lamps of architecture: lectures on architecture and painting: The study of architecture. Sesame and lilies: Unto this last: The queen of the air: The storm-cloud of the nineteenth century.

Author

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

Publication

Boston, D. Estes & Co, [187-?]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Dana Estes & Company publisher.

Description

434 p. Plates.

Alternative Title

• Lectures on architecture and painting
• Queen of the air
• Sesame and lilies
• Storm-cloud of the nineteenth century
• Study of architecture
• Unto this last

Subject

• Air > History. > Europe
• Architecture
• Art, Greek
• Athena (Greek deity)
• Books and reading > Great Britain
• Conduct of life
• Economics
• Femininity
• Masculinity
• Mythology, Greek
• Painting
• Paintings
• Sex role
• Smog > London > History

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• History

Note

• At head of title: Illustrated Sterling ed.
• Binding: Ruskin's works.
• [Sesame and lilies, Unto this last, The queen of the air, and The storm cloud of the nineteenth century form a separate pagination from the main rest of the book.]

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The seven lamps of architecture. The lamp of sacrifice -- The lamp of truth -- The lamp of power -- The lamp of beauty -- The lamp of life -- The lamp of memory -- The lamp of obedience -- Lecture I -- Lecture II -- Addenda to lectures I. and II. -- Lecture III. Turner and his works -- Lecture IV. Pre-Raphaelitism -- Addenda to lecture IV. -- An inquiry into the study of architecture -- Sesame and lilies. Of kings' treasuries -- Of queens' gardens -- The mystery of life and its arts -- Unto this last. The roots of honour -- The veins of wealth -- Qui judicatis terram -- Ad valorem -- The queen of the air -- Athena Chalinitis -- Athena Keramitis -- Athena Ergane -- The storm cloud of the nineteenth century.

OCLC

169653

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library