The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9 ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 414 páginas |
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The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and ... John Ruskin Visualização completa - 1859 |
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architect architecture artists beautiful Bellinzona BIBLIOTHECA SACRA building carve CHEEVER REV CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Cloth colour Correggio creatures decoration delight DOWNING A. J. drawing earth elements Encyclopædia Britannica England eyes fancy feel figure genius gift give Gothic Gothic art hand heart human illustrations imagination imitate inferior Inigo Jones invention iron ironwork Italy John Ruskin kind labour leaves lecture less lines living look manufacture marble matter means ment metal mind modern mouldings nation natural art natural fact never noble observe once ornament painter painting peace perfect perhaps Phidias plates pre-Raphaelites principles produce purple Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rouen Cathedral sculpture soul stone STONES OF VENICE suppose teach tell thing thought Tintoret tion Titian to-night touch truth Tunbridge Turner Velasquez Venetian Venetian school Venice whole wholly words workman yourselves
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Página 45 - And thus great art is nothing else than the type of strong and noble life; for, as the ignoble person, in his dealings with all that occurs in the world about him, first sees nothing clearly, — looks nothing fairly in the face, and then allows himself to be swept away by the trampling torrent, and unescapable force, of the things that he would not foresee, and could not understand: so the noble person, looking the facts of the world full in...
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