St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 447
alize natui-al fact ac-cording to its own notions: it puts red spots in the middleof the hands, and sharpens the thumbs, thinking to imj^rovethem. Here you have the most pure type possible of theprinciples of idealism in all ages : whenever people dont lookat Nature, they always think they can… … *I copy thia woodcut from Wcatwood s *Pala-ographia Sacra. POWER OF CONVENTIONAL ART. 23 arc made symmetrical—entirely round, instead of irregular,oval; and the iris is set properly in the middle, instead of—as nature has absurdly put it—rather under the upper lid.You ^yill also observe the…
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