The sins of the Renaissance: John Ruskin and the rise of the professional architect -- Embracing decadence: Walter Pater's and John Addington Symonds's Renaissance -- 'It is time to be rational': William J. Anderson's The architecture of the Renaissance in Italy -- The Renaissance as an English style: J. Alfred Gotch, Reginald Blomfield, and the English Renaissance -- Experiencing the Renaissance: Geoffrey Scott's The architecture of humanism.