Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 75
ll more varied and beautiful curve is formed, as at e.Such curves constitute nearly the whole beauty of gene-ral contour in falling drapery, tendrils and festoons ofweeds over rocks, and such other pendent objects.* * The catenary is not properly a curve capable of infinity, if its di-rection does… … LINES. 39 § 11. Again. If any object be cast into the air, theforce with which it is cast dies gradually away, and itsown weight brings it downwards ; at first slowly, thenfaster and faster every moment, in a curve which, as theline of fall necessarily nears the perpendicular, is continu-ally…
Art · Aesthetics
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