The two paths; being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9 (1891)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : John Wiley · leaf 35
nently manifestedin the specimen I have to give you of the hopeless Gothicbarbarism; the barbarism from which nothing could emerge—for which no future waspossible but extinction. TheAristotelian principles of theBeautiful are, you remember,Order, Symmetry, and the Defi-nite. Here you have the… … * I copy this woodcut from Westwoods Palseographia Sacm.* (iECT. l.J CONVENTION A.L ART 31 are, first the wilful closing of its eyes to natural facts;— -for_however ignorant a person may be, he need only look at ahuman being to see that it has a mouth as well as eyes;and secondJy, the endeavour to…
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