Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc · New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co. · leaf 70
rn what youshould know of these earlier, many of themweaker, men, who yet, for the very reason oftheir greater simplicity of power, are betterguides for you, and of whom some will remainguides to all generations. And, as regards thesubject of our present course, I have a stillmore weighty… … o f Mi 1 , rt ^* rff H o ^ o g-^2 w II TO OTHER ARTS. 49 Titian, Reynolds, Valasquez, and the rest, areessentially portrait painters. They give youthe likeness of a man : they have nothing tosay either about his future life, or his gods. That is the look of him, they say : ^ here, onearth, we know…
Engraving · Wood-engraving
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