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 73
varied and beautiful curve is formed, as at e.Such curves constitute nearly the wliole beauty of gene-ral contour in falling drapery, tendrils and festoons ofweeds over rocks, and such otlier pendent objects.* * The catenary is not properly a curve capable of infinity, if its di-rection floes not… … Fig. (i. LINES. 39 § 11. Again. If any object be cast into the air, theforce with which it is cast dies gradually away, and itsown weight brings it downwards ; at first slowly, thenfaster and faster every moment, in a curve which, as theline of fall necessarily nears the perpendicular, is…
Art · Aesthetics
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