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A work of art criticism from 1843 that defends the painter J. M. W. Turner. It argues that contemporary landscape painters surpass the old masters through truthful depiction of nature, and separates surface appearance from deeper truth.

The second of three volumes of a treatise published in 1853 on Venetian architecture across the Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods. It describes many churches and includes the chapter "The Nature of Gothic," which pairs architectural analysis with social commentary.