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 372
of the city and tower toFlorence and Fesole;from the fact that, thoughthe boughs are too thin,the lines of ramificationare true and beautiful;and from the expression ofcontinually varied formin the clusters of leafage.And although all loversof sacred art would ^^s- 21. shrink iu liorror from the… … 326 BACKGROUNDS. ciated idea than Raphaels; and I think it possible that thetrue forms of hills, and true thicknesses of boughs, mightbe tenderly stolen into this background of Raphaels with-out ginng offence to any one. 4. Take a somewhat more definite instance. The rock inFig. 21, on p. 825, is…
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