Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 324
ect, owing to the ■ Fig. 17> want of angles in their outline. By great men like Titian, this somewhat con-ventional structure was only given in haste to distantmasses; and their excpiisite delineation of the foreground,kept their conventionalism from degeneracy: but in thedrawing of the Caracci… … 276 SKETCHING. an ignorant person might perhaps suppose it morefree, and therefore better than Fig. 16. Note, also,that in noble outline drawing, it does not follow that abough is wrongly drawn, because it .looks contractedunnaturally somewhere, as in Fig. 16., just above thefoliage. Very often the…
Art · Aesthetics
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