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	The Stones of Venice
		The Doctor insists that the fall of Venice was always on the cards, a phrase which seems to amuse Ms Lavish immensely; Venice's doom comes not from the natural process of decay, but the curse.
		It's the last night of Venice, they're surrounded by danger and dark secrets, and much to Churchwell's horror, the Doctor is in his element; for there's corruption here, and he's the man to sort it all out.
		Venice begins to sink, and as the panic-stricken revellers flee for their lives, Ms Lavish sighs and orders the band to strike up.
	www.drwhoguide.com /who_bf18.htm (4765 words)

	The Stones of Venice
		The hour of Venice perhaps, too, one might be led to think from certain signs, the hour of Ruskin in France, the hour of Venice in any case.
		Venice has never enjoyed, among the intellects of the elite, a favour as special and as lofty as it does today.
		The dying Venice of Barrès, the carnivalesque and posthumus Venice of Régnier, the Venice insatiable in love of Mme de Noailles, the Venice of Léon Daudet, of Jacques Vontade
	www.yorktaylors.free-online.co.uk /venice.htm (716 words)

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		Now Venice, as she was once the most religious, was in her fall the most corrupt, of European states; and as she was in her strength the centre of the pure currents of Christian architecture, so she is in her decline the source of the Renaissance.
		He died, leaving Venice disgraced by sea and land, with the smoke of hostile devastation rising in the blue distances of Friuli; and there was raised to him the most costly tomb ever bestowed on her monarchs.
		The remains of _their_ Venice lie hidden behind the cumbrous masses which were the delight of the nation in its dotage; hidden in many a grass-grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal, where the slow waves have sapped their foundations for five hundred years, and must soon prevail over them for ever.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext06/7stvn10.txt (9951 words)

	Michael Vickers, Stones in Venice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Venice was built on a mud flat in the Lagoon: all the building materials-timber, bricks, stone and marble had to be imported from elsewhere.
		Exotic marbles in Venice were rarely newly quarried, however, but were recycled from earlier buildings whose ruins were to be found in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean that the Venetians controlled.
		Vickers, "Wandering stones: Venice, Constantinople and Athens", in K.-L. Selig and E. Sears (eds.), The Verbal and the Visual: Essays in Honor of William S. Heckscher (New York, Italica Press, 1990), 225-242.
	www.colorado.edu /Classics/CAA/AIA/0203/vickersabst03.htm (259 words)

	Ruskin's Venice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Since first the dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England.
		Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction.
		record, as far as I may, the warning which seems to me to be uttered by every one of the fast-gaining waves, that beat like passing bells, against the Stones of Venice.
	www.victorianweb.org /photos/venice/veniceov.html (141 words)

	Ruskin’s Venice, The Stones Revisited
		Of the many foreign travellers who have written about Venice there is none to surpass John Ruskin, the great nineteenth-century writer, artist and critic, whose massive three-volume work The Stones of Venice (1851—3) remains one of the most influential books on art and architecture ever written.
		Known and read all over the world in Ruskin’s lifetime, the Stones surveyed the buildings of Venice and developed an aesthetic and intellectual argument which is still at the heart of the debate on the meaning of architecture and craftsmanship.
		It excludes interiors and paintings, concentrating on the exterior architecture and sculpture of Venice, all of which may be seen from the street or from the water without entering a building.
	www.lundhumphries.com /pages/single/2070.html (365 words)

	Ruskin MP I Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first edition of the first volume of The Stones of Venice was published in 1851.
		The first edition of the second volume of The Stones of Venice was published in 1853.
		The first edition of the third volume of The Stones of Venice was also published in 1853.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /users/ruskin/empi/notes/umisc09.htm (122 words)

	Ruskin’s Venice, The Stones Revisited
		John Ruskin's masterpiece The Stones of Venice (1851—53) was one of the most influential books on art and architecture ever written and is still regarded as a classic work.
		The result is a beautifully illustrated book that successfully communicates the writer's passion for Venice and his concern for her architectural heritage.
		Uniting the historical with the present day, Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited is a unique companion guide for both the seasoned and first-time traveller to Venice, and will undoubtedly leave the reader determined to retrace Ruskin's footsteps time and time again.
	www.lundhumphries.com /pages/single/10939.html (328 words)

	The Stones On Venice
		It would be of hewn stone ; it would have its windows and its doors, and its stairs and its pillars, in lordly order, and of stately size ; it would have its wings and its corridors, and its halls and its gardens, as if all the earth were its own.
		Venice has been seen through Ruskin's eyes ; it is forgotten that his vision was individual and original.
		Gibbon's views on Venice are worth quoting as an example of cultured opinion in the eighteenth century.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles03/venice3.shtml (2806 words)

	Stones of Venice
		Throughout her career, the victories of Venice, and, at many periods of it, her safety, were purchased by individual heroism ; and the man who exalted or saved her was sometimes (oftenest) her king, sometimes a noble, sometimes a citizen.
		It was the originality and splendor of the Palaces of Vicenza and Venice which gave this school its eminence in the eyes of Europe ; and the dying city, magnificent in her dissipation, and graceful in her follies, obtained wider worship in her de.
		He died, leaving Venice disgraced by sea -and land, with the smoke of hostile devastation rising in the blue distances of Friuli; and there was raised to him the most costly tomb ever bestowed on her monarchs.
	members.chello.nl /~a.vanarum8/EliotProject/Burbank_notes/Stonesi_JR.htm (7091 words)

	The Stones of Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stones of Venice is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
		This audio drama will be broadcast on BBC 7 in four weekly parts starting on 1 October 2005.
		Sometime in the future, the Eighth Doctor and Charley visit Venice about to sink below the water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Stones_of_Venice (110 words)

	The Stones of Venice
		The Stones of Venice is the first Big Finish audio to capture the essence of the Eighth Doctor.
		The plot is equally apocalyptic; the Doctor and Charley arrive in Venice only to find out that the city is cursed to sink beneath the water at sunrise on the next day.
		In terms of scripting, The Stones of Venice is easily superior to McGann's sole television episode.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/hartnell/venice.html (473 words)

	Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Of the many foreign travelers who have written about Venice there is none to surpass John Ruskin, the great nineteenthcentury writer, artist and critic, whose massive three-EDITION work The Stones of Venice (1851-3) remains one of the most influential books on art and architecture ever written.
		To mark the centenary of Ruskin's death in 1900, Sarah Quill has compiled an illustrated guide to The Stones of Venice, linking Ruskin's descriptions of individual buildings with a contemporary photographic record of the architecture and sculpture as it is seen today.
		This abridgment excludes interiors and paintings, concentrating on the exterior architecture and sculpture of Venice, all of which may be seen from the street or from the water without entering a building.
	www.usaflightinsurance.com /books-reviewed/0853318956.html (629 words)

	DiscContinuity: 'The Stones of Venice'
		It is not explained where 'Estella' is from, but presumably she is human in form and possesses at least some psychic ability or power in sufficient quantity as to see her will realised via the focussing jewels she has brought with her to Earth.
		With them she is able to place the 'curse' on Venice and prevent the Duke (but not herself) from aging for 100 years.
		Future History: In the 23rd century Venice is sinking for the last time, the victim of a curse put upon its Duke Orcino by his Duchess Estella, an alien at large on Earth.
	www.tetrap.com /drwho/disccon/8/stones.html (777 words)

	Venice: Ca' Pisani Hotel - Deals and Reviews - What a marvelous refuge amid the hard stones of Venice! - TripAdvisor
		The ultra-modern Ca'Pisani may not be everybody's fantasy of a Venetian pile, but after a hard day of museum and church going, and marching up and down the many bridges of Venice, it is divine to retreat to a perfectly quiet, comfortable room and enjoy a jacuzzi.
		Ca'Pisani is a new Hotel in central Venice built in the shell of a 16th century house.
		It is not cheap, but nothing in Venice is. Better to pay a huge amount for something superb than a lot for something dreadful.
	www.tripadvisor.com /ShowUserReviews-g187870-d241742-r837962-Ca_Pisani_Hotel-Venice_Veneto.html (1034 words)

	Oxford University Museum of Natural History Ruskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first volume of The Stones of Venice followed in 1851, with the two final volumes in 1853.
		Archivolt in the Duomo of Murano from The Stones of Venice II
		Leafage of the Venetian Capitals from The Stones of Venice II
	www.oum.ox.ac.uk /ruskin3.htm (327 words)

	Venice By.Com: Hotels in Venice. Accommodation, lodgings, apartments, villas, bed & breakfasts, townhouse suites, ...
		The Metropole is a very special 4 star hotel facing Venice Lagoon, just a few steps from Piazza S. Marco.
		Surrounded by calm and tranquillity, Hotel Al Ponte Mocenigo is a charming, striking location: the ideal choice when staying in Venice.
		It exists like "the stones of Venice," those extolled by John Ruskin; it is a stone of Venice, attached to the name of this city in the memories of those who
	www.veniceby.com (382 words)

	Doctor Who - Big Finish Productions
		Sword of Orion" the release for March 2001 is "The Stones of Venice".
		The last boats have long gone and with the place rife with snobbery, decay, superstition and terror the remaining Venetians are living like it's their last night on Earth.
		Summer weekends in Venice in recent years; traipsing the Left Bank and Pinot Grigio at ten pence a glass; writing in my journal in the Peggy Guggenheim museum.
	www.whotopia.keen2host.co.uk /drwho/bigfinish/bigfinish-18.htm (980 words)

	Stones of Venice
		It is the meeting of stone and water that creates much of the magic of Venice, the solidity and permanence of the former and the evanescent fragility of the latter.
		During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, multicolored marble tombs climbed up the walls of the city's churches and great artists made magnificent stone statues in all sizes for church and state as well as for the great patrician families.
		This beautiful, specially photographed all color book on Venice is a thesis on the texture, color, shape and endless uses of stone in the hands of sensitive artists and a source of inspiration for designers and craftsmen in all areas.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0865652457 (196 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Renaissance
		Cardinal Bessarion gave his magnificent stock of books to St. Mark's Venice; and the Medicean Library, collected at Florence, where it still reposes (the Laurentian), was for a while transferred to Rome by Clement VII.
		The Hebrew test was printed at Soncino and Naples between 1477 and 1486; the Rabbinic Bible was dedicated at Venice to Leo X in 1517.
		At Venice and Ferrara his friend Guarino (1370-1460) was another eminent schoolmaster, mighty in Greek.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12765b.htm (5360 words)

	NOVA \| Sinking City of Venice \| Venice Under Siege \| PBS
		"The rate at which Venice is going is about that of a lump of sugar in hot tea." So declared John Ruskin, the 19th-century critic and author of The Stones of Venice.
		While this beloved Italian city is not disappearing quite that quickly, it is sinking and disintegrating at a pace that disheartens Venetians and visitors alike.
		Using three satellite views of Venice and its surroundings, familiarize yourself with the various perils that are combining like disparate armies in a coordinated attack on this historic city and its no less historic lagoon.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venice/siege.html (158 words)

	Architectural Review, The: The stones of Venice - View
		Truman Capote once observed that 'Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go', a sentiment that might equally apply to the city's eighth Architecture Biennale, arrayed in all its customary pomp and pretension in the Castello Gardens and the great ropeworks and munitions sheds of the Arsenale.
		This time the press vernissage coincided with the tail end of the Venice Film Festival, so an intoxicating menage of cinematic and architectural luminaries could be spotted on assorted corniches, landing stages, restaurants and hotel lobbies.
		From opening remarks by a man from the State Department, to a horribly contorted steel beam pulled from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, events in the US pavilion were understandably overshadowed by the grim legacy of 11 September.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1268_212/ai_93232108 (1142 words)

	BBC - Cult - Doctor Who - CD - The Stones of Venice
		The guest cast were also very good, and Magrs' evocation of an odd Venice, wrapped up in its own mysterious, politically thrilling history is delightful.
		The Stones Of Venice is therefore not as bad as it may have been, but despite the fact that it is moderately enjoyable, it is still something of a disappointment.
		The Stones of Venice offered what Big Finish seemed to be able to do so well, if only not often enough.
	www.bbc.co.uk /doctorwho/classic/cd/stonesofvenice/review.shtml (1116 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		John Ruskin's three-volume "The Stones of Venice" (1851-3) remains massively influential in art and architecture.
		Sarah Quill's photographs identify the details described by Ruskin and show the extent to which the city's architecture has survived, or changed, since first publication of "The Stones of Venice".
		The opening chapter provides an introduction to Ruskin's involvment with Venice and to the periods and styles of Venetian architecture.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1840146974 (508 words)

	The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
		In it John Ruskin surveys many of the principal buildings in the “Paradise of Cities,” and develops an aesthetic and intellectual argument that is still at the heart of the debate over the meaning of architecture and craftsmanship.
		In the first volume, he presents a short history of Venice and discusses the functional and ornamental aspects of architecture.
		The third volume contains Ruskin’s trenchant examination of the spiritual and architectural decline of Venice during the Renaissance.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Stones of Venice (Da Capo Paperback) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself to be an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this beautiful, melancholy city are nowhere better expressed than in The Stones of Venice, a collection of essays first published between 1851 and 1853.
		As Ruskin wrote on his second visit to Venice in 1841, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		I was fortunate enough to pick this up in Venice, so I was able to search out his examples of the 5 worst buildings in Venice, and similar Ruskinisms.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306802449?v=glance (826 words)

	Throb.co.uk ::: Ruskin's Venice: "the Stones" Revisited (buy new from £19.99 or used from £16.77) by Sarah Quill ::: ...
		At Amazon.co.uk, owners of this book have given it average rating of 4 out of 5 and it is currently at position 48,150 in the Amazon.co.uk sales rank.
		It's as delicately illustrated a survey of Venice as a lot of the giant coffee table stuff that costs even more.
		Ruskin wore his nib out writing with great intelligence about pretty much everything under the sun but if it's his evangelical passion for Venice that you're after then you couldn't be better served.
	www.throb.co.uk /cocktale/asin.php/0853318956 (438 words)

	Review: The Stones of Venice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Little did I realise at the time, but this argument had first been put by John Ruskin, in The Stones of Venice first published in 1853.
		"It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance.
		His book was read by everybody that went to Venice in the second half of the nineteenth century.
	www.users.bigpond.com /Anthony_Holmes/personal/reviews/ruskin.htm (301 words)

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