The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1895)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington · leaf 280
248 THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING, [letter hi. leading or master feature is, of course, the tower on the bridge. It is kept from being too principal by an important group on each side of it ; the boats, on the right, and Ehren- breitstein beyond. The boats are large in … Fig. 32. mass, and more forcible in colour, but they are broken into small divisions, while the tower is simple, and therefore it still leads. Ehrenbreitstein is noble in its mass, but so reduced by aerial perspective of colour that it cannot contend with the tower, which there- fore holds the eye,…
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