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 38
lian art-Michael Angelos fresco of the Temptation of Eve, inthe Sistine chapel, and you will be more interested in seeingthe birth of Italian art, illustrated by the same subject, * T have said elsewhere, the root of all art is struck in the thirteenthcentury. This is quite true: but of course some… … tlic elements of life in their first form. The people whocould do that were sure to get on. For, observe, the work-mans whole aim is straight at the facts, as well as he canget them ; and not merely at the facts, bat at the very hearti)f the facts. A common workman might have looked atnature for…
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