Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 94
As, in every good picture, nearly all laws of design aremore or less exemplified, it will, on the whole, be an easierway of explaining them to analyse one compositionthoroughly, than to give instances from various works. I COMPOSITION. 51 sliall therefore take one of Turners simplest; which… … Fig. 12. the town of Coblentz on the right, Ehrenbreitstein on theleft. The leading or master feature is, of course, the toweron the bridge. It is kept from being too principal by animportant group on each side of it ; the boats, on the right,and Ehrenbreitstein beyond. The boats are large in…
Art · Aesthetics
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