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 386
lf authoritative, but acted upon desire,and not upon dicta, and sought for sympathj, not foradmiration. 5. And so we find the same simple and sweet treatment,tlie open sky, the tender, unpretending, hori/^ontal whiteclouds, the far winding and abundant laiulscape, in Gi<jtto,Taddeo, Gaddi,… … o Gl BACKGROUNDS. 333 the glory of his luminous distance far beyond all his pre-decessors, began at the same time to use a somewhatmorbid relief of his figures against the upper sky. Thusin the Assumption of the Florentine Academy, in that ofIAnnunziata ; and of the Gallery of Bologna, in all…
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