Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 82
LINES. 41 seem rigid. The stems of the young leaves look nearlystraight, and the sides of the projecting points, or bastions,of the leaves themselves nearly so ; but on examination itAvill be found that there is not a stem nor a leaf-edge butis a portion of one inlinite curve, if not of two or…
Art · Aesthetics
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