John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 55
in his ModernPainters, under the article Landscape, remarks all the Renaissance (i.e. Raphaelite) principles ofart tended to the setting beauty above truth, and seeking for it always at the expense of truth. Andthe proper punishment of such pursuit—the punishment which all the lav/s of the universe… … JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. 43 beauty, so far as human effort could succeed in doing so, from the face of the earth aud the form ofman. To powder the hair, to patch the cheek, to hoop the body, to buckle the foot, were all part andparcel of the same system which reduced streets to brick walls and…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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