Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 384
easure in the luminousspace of his backgrounds, or whoever sacrifices this plea-sure where the nature of his subject admits of its attain-ment, as on the other hand I know not that the habitualuse of dark backgrounds can be shown as having everbeen co-existent with pure or high feeling, and, except… … BACKGROUNDS. 331 2. The absolute necessity, for such indeed I consider it,is of no more than such a mere luminous distant point asmay give to the feelings a species of escape from all thefinite objects about them. There is a spectral etching ofRembrandt, a presentation of Christ in the Temple,…
Art · Aesthetics
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