Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 104
which, like these bridge arches or the corks of thenet, are actually connected with each other, but—and thisis a still more noble and interesting kind of continuity—among features which appear at first entirely separate.Thus the towers of Ehrenbreitstein, on the left, in Fig. 12.,appear at first… … 62 COMPOSITION. are all bounded by one grand curve, traced by the dottedline ; out of the seven towers, four precisely touch thiscurve, the others only falling back from it here and thereto keep the eye from discovering it too easily.
Art · Aesthetics
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