Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 376
pi: their works are so confusedtogether in the Chapel of the Carmine, that I know not towhom I may attribute,—or whether, without being imme-diately quarrelled with, and contradicted, I may attributeto anybody,—the landscape background of the fresco ofthe Tribute Money. But that background, with… … 9. The Shores of Wharfe. BACKGROUNDS. 327 two other fragments in the same chapel, is far in advanceof all other work I have seen of the period, in expressionof the rounded contours and large slopes of hills, and theassociation of their summits with the clouds. The oppositeengraving will give some…
Art · Aesthetics
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