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 285
e twogroups composing it; the lower is purely symmetrical,with trefoiled centre and broad masses for wings; theuppermost is a sweeping continuous curve, symmetrical,but foreshoitened. Both are clasped by arrow-shapedleaves. The two whole groups themselves are. in turn, 238 THE MOTIVE OF LANDSCAPE.… … ^^<^ W V Fig. 4. § 14. Unless every leaf, and every visible point orobject, however small, forms a part of some harmony ofthis kind (these synnnetrical conditions being only the most THE MOTIVE OF LANDSCAPE. 239 simple and obvious), it has no business in the picture. It isthe necessary…
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