Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving (1904)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Longmans · leaf 200
s even more extravagant inaccessories than the Venus. You see the Sunsepaulettes before you see the sun ; the spiralscrolls of his chariot, and the black twisted raysof it, might, so far as types of form only areconsidered, be a design for some modern court-dress star, to be made in diamonds. And… … GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING. 165 what to Other nations were fables and symbol-isms, to her became living facts—living gods.The fall of Greece was instant when her godsagain became fables. The Apollo Belvidere isthe work of a sculptor to whom Apollonism ismerely an elegant idea on which to exhibit…
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