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 382
)lea-sure where the natui-e of his subject admits of its attain-ment, as on the other hand I know not that the habitualuse of dark backgrounds (;an be shown as having everl)ceu co-existent with pure or high, feeling, and, except inthe case of Rembrandt (and then under peculiar circum-stances only),… … BACKGROUMDS. 331 2. The absolute necessity, for such indeed I consider it,is of no more than such a mere luminous distant point asmay give to the feelings a species of escape from all thefinite objects about them. There is a spectral etching oflieuibrandt, a presentation of Christ in the Temple,…
Art · Aesthetics
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