Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 103
62 coMrosrnoN. are all boniided by one grand curve, traced by the dottedline ; out of tlie seven towers, four precisely touch thiscurve, the others only falling back from it here and thereto keep the eye from discovering it too easily. … Fig. 15. And it is not only always possible to ol)tiun coiitiiiiiitiesof this kind: it is, in drawing large forest or mountainforms, essential to truth. The towers of Ehrenln-eitstcinmight not ill i-eality fall into such a curve, but assuredlythe basah, rock on which they stand did; for all…
Art · Aesthetics
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