Walks in Florence. REKIN J.

“Walks in Florence” (1877) - a guide to the early Renaissance in Florence and at the same time a school of view, teaching the skill to see the skill in the repeating and similarity in the dissimilar. Supplying the reader with recommendations which of the countless treasures of the architecture and painting of the flowering capital of the Italian Renaissance are worthy of special attention, the author teaches to perceive Florence dynamically, moving from enthusiasm for analyzing the ideas inspired by the Renaissance. Florence presented in this book is a familiar stranger who reveals the veil only to those who know both the secret of intellectual pleasure, and the secret of trusting conversation.

observations of John Ruskin - the fruit of several decades of studying art is so thin and witty that it seems at least imprudent to neglect them.