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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... reference to nature .... 184 185 CHAPTER IV . - Of Imagination Contemplative . § 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence , but only a habit or mode of the faculty ......... § 2. The ambiguity of Conception ........ 186 ...
... reference to nature .... 184 185 CHAPTER IV . - Of Imagination Contemplative . § 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence , but only a habit or mode of the faculty ......... § 2. The ambiguity of Conception ........ 186 ...
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... reference to it . Now the term " æsthesis " properly signifies mere sensual percep- tion of the outward qualities and necessary effects of bodies ; in which sense only , if we would arrive at any accurate conclusions on this difficult ...
... reference to it . Now the term " æsthesis " properly signifies mere sensual percep- tion of the outward qualities and necessary effects of bodies ; in which sense only , if we would arrive at any accurate conclusions on this difficult ...
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... reference to God's glory , they become Theoretic and so we may find something divine in the sweetness of wild fruits , as well as in the pleasantness of the pure air , and the tenderness of its natural perfumes that come and go as they ...
... reference to God's glory , they become Theoretic and so we may find something divine in the sweetness of wild fruits , as well as in the pleasantness of the pure air , and the tenderness of its natural perfumes that come and go as they ...
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... reference to heavenly hopes ; delights they are in seeing the narrow , black , miserable earth fairly compared with the bright firmament ; reach- ings forward unto the things that are before , and joyfulness in the apparent , though ...
... reference to heavenly hopes ; delights they are in seeing the narrow , black , miserable earth fairly compared with the bright firmament ; reach- ings forward unto the things that are before , and joyfulness in the apparent , though ...
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... reference to a farther end . For it is not even true that variety as such , and in its highest degree , is beautiful . A patched garment of many colours is by no means so agreeable as one of a single and continuous hue ; the splendid ...
... reference to a farther end . For it is not even true that variety as such , and in its highest degree , is beautiful . A patched garment of many colours is by no means so agreeable as one of a single and continuous hue ; the splendid ...
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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...