Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I “LECTURES ON LANDSCAPE” (1871)
- II “THE RELATION BETWEEN MICHAEL ANGELO AND TINTORET” (1871)
- III “THE EAGLE'S NEST”: TEN LECTURES ON THE RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE TO ART (1872)
- IV “ARIADNE FLORENTINA”: SIX LECTURES ON WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVING (1872)
- APPENDIX: NOTES FOR OXFORD LECTURES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- I STUDIES IN THE DISCOURSES OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1875)
- II READINGS IN “MODERN PAINTERS” (1877)
- Plate section
II - READINGS IN “MODERN PAINTERS” (1877)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I “LECTURES ON LANDSCAPE” (1871)
- II “THE RELATION BETWEEN MICHAEL ANGELO AND TINTORET” (1871)
- III “THE EAGLE'S NEST”: TEN LECTURES ON THE RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE TO ART (1872)
- IV “ARIADNE FLORENTINA”: SIX LECTURES ON WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVING (1872)
- APPENDIX: NOTES FOR OXFORD LECTURES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- I STUDIES IN THE DISCOURSES OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1875)
- II READINGS IN “MODERN PAINTERS” (1877)
- Plate section
Summary
1. All living artists contradict whatever I say; and see what fatal impediment that puts in the way of my use to you.
The Professor of Mathematics at Paris and Vienna doesn't contradict your professor here.
The Greek scholars of Berlin do not contradict the Dean of Christ Church; the Professor of Medicine in Paris agrees in most points with Dr. Acland ; and you can believe, and do believe, what they all say. But you will hear a separate theory from every art professor in Europe, and every one of their theories, however disagreeing among themselves, are in unison of opposition to me. I am alone against all the host of them.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 508 - 538Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1906