Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 105
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. … Fig. 15. And it is not only always possible to obtain continuitiesof this kind: it is, in drawing large forest or mountainforms, essential to truth. The towers of Ehrenbreitsteinmight not in reality fall into such a curve, but assuredlythe basalt rock on which they stand did; for all mountainforms…
Art · Aesthetics
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