The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1895)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington · leaf 204
172 THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING, [letter 11. Titian, this somewhat conventional structure was only given in haste to distant masses; and their exquisite delineation of the fore- ground, kept their conventionalism from de- generacy : but in the drawings of the Carracci and other derivative masters, the… … Fig. 27. worst which it is possible to get into the habit of using, though an ignorant person might perhaps suppose it more " free," and therefore better than Fig. 26. Note also, that in noble outline drawing, it does not follow that a bough is wrongly drawn, because it looks contracted unnaturally…
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