Modern Painters, Volume 2Routledge, 1856 - 402 páginas John Ruskin was the most influential art critic during the Victorian period. His five volume book Modern Painters was written in opposition against art critics who were opposed to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. Ruskin was a collector of Turner's works and the two were friends. In his writings, Ruskin was a harsh critic towards classical art, and believe that the landscape paintings of Turner and others demonstrated a superior understanding of "truth." |
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... owing to influence of mind . First , Of Intellect ........... 110 § 5. Secondly , of the Moral Feelings ........... § 6. What beauty is bestowed by them ..... § 7. How the Soul - culture interferes harmfully with the bodily Ideal ...
... owing to influence of mind . First , Of Intellect ........... 110 § 5. Secondly , of the Moral Feelings ........... § 6. What beauty is bestowed by them ..... § 7. How the Soul - culture interferes harmfully with the bodily Ideal ...
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... Owing to this direction of public funds , the fronts of the Duomo , Santa Croce , San Lorenzo , and half the others in Florence , remain in their original bricks . The old refectory of Santa Croce , containing an invaluable Cenacolo ...
... Owing to this direction of public funds , the fronts of the Duomo , Santa Croce , San Lorenzo , and half the others in Florence , remain in their original bricks . The old refectory of Santa Croce , containing an invaluable Cenacolo ...
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... owing to its own imperfection , or to the imperfection of the premises submitted to it , as when men give an inordinate preference to their own pursuits , because they cannot , in the nature of things , have sufficiently ex- perienced ...
... owing to its own imperfection , or to the imperfection of the premises submitted to it , as when men give an inordinate preference to their own pursuits , because they cannot , in the nature of things , have sufficiently ex- perienced ...
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... owing to their self - sufficiency . But when , instead of being scattered , interrupted , or chance - distributed , they are gathered together , and so arranged to enhance each other as by chance they could not be , there is caused by ...
... owing to their self - sufficiency . But when , instead of being scattered , interrupted , or chance - distributed , they are gathered together , and so arranged to enhance each other as by chance they could not be , there is caused by ...
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... owing to their repetition . It is however beneficently ordained that repulsiveness shall be diminished by custom in a far greater degree than the sensation of beauty ; so that the anatomist in a little time loses all sense of horror in ...
... owing to their repetition . It is however beneficently ordained that repulsiveness shall be diminished by custom in a far greater degree than the sensation of beauty ; so that the anatomist in a little time loses all sense of horror in ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adamite Aiguilles Verte angel Angelico animal artist bodily body Brera Gallery Camillo Procaccini Chap character Christ clouds colour combination conceive conception Correggio creature delight desire dignity Divine evident evil exist expression eyes fancy farther fear feeling Fra Angelico Fra Bartolomeo function Gentile Bellini Giorgione Giotto glory hand heart human form ideal form Imaginative faculty imperfection impressions instance intellectual kind landscape less light look lower Madonna Masaccio matter Michael Angelo mind Mino da Fiesole modes moral nature necessary never noble object observed operation outward painful painted painter passion perception perfect Perugino picture Pitti Palace plant pleasure portraiture present proportion pure purity Raffaelle reader received repose respect rightly seen sense sensual shadow sight signs Soldanella alpina species spirit sublime suppose Theoretic faculty things Tintoret tion Titian tree trunk truth typical beauty unity Venice visible zinc
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Página 133 - And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said...
Página 37 - From God who is our home. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 163 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Página 34 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 128 - On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh!
Página 161 - The fancy sees the outside, and is able to give a portrait of the outside, clear, brilliant, and full of detail. The imagination sees the heart and inner nature, and makes them felt, but is often obscure, mysterious, and interrupted, in its giving of outer detail.
Página 192 - Branchless and blasted, clenched with grasping roots The unwilling soil. A gradual change was here Yet ghastly. For, as fast years flow away, The smooth brow gathers, and the hair grows thin And white, and where irradiate dewy eyes Had shone, gleam stony orbs : — so from his steps Bright flowers departed, and the beautiful shade Of the green groves, with all their odorous winds And musical motions.
Página 4 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Página 192 - Its stony jaws, the abrupt mountain breaks, And seems, with its accumulated crags, To overhang the world: for wide expand Beneath the wan stars and descending moon Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horizon.
Página 4 - Utilitarians, who would turn, if they had their way, themselves and their race into vegetables ; men who think, as far as such can be said to think (!), that the meat...