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The lamp of beauty
writings on art by John Ruskin
1959
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John Ruskin was arguably the most important art critic of the nineteenth century. This book makes available a generous selection of his finest writings on painting, sculpture and architecture.
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Joan Evans
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Dame Joan Evans, DBE was a British historian of French and English mediaeval art. She was the daughter of antiquarian and businessman John Evans and his third wife Maria Millington Lathbury (1856–1944). In 1950 her book Cluniac Art of the Romanesque Period, which concerned art and sculptures made by the monks of the abbey at Cluny in eastern France, was published by Cambridge University Press.

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