Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 195
nsof showing them, namely to represent them as golden. Forthe idea of golden fruit of various kinds was already familiarto the mind, as in the apples of the Hesperides, without anyviolence to the distinctive conception of the fruit itself.* So * Thus the grapes pressed by Excesse are partly golden… … Plate IV.—Mosaics of Olive-tree and Flowers, CONCLUSION. 179 the mosaicist introduced small round golden berries into thedark ground between each leaf, and his work was done. § xvn. On the opposite plate, the uppermost figure on theleft is a tolerably faithful representation of the general effectof…
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