John Ruskin

1. In my inaugural lecture, [1] I stated that while holding this professorship I should direct you, in your practical exercises, chiefly to natural history and landscape.

28. In my last Lecture I laid before you evidence that the greatness of the master whom I wished you to follow as your only guide in landscape depended primarily on his studying from Nature always with the point; that is to say, in pencil or pen outline. To-day I wish to show you that his preëminence depends secondarily on his perfect rendering of form and distance by light and shade, before he admits a thought of color.

(RAPHAEL)

F.A. GRUYER

Raphael seemed to have attained perfection in the Virgin with the Fish; however, four or five years later, he was to rise infinitely higher and display something superior to art and inaccessible to science.

It was in 1518 that the Benedictines of the monastery of St. Sixtus ordered this picture. They had required that the Virgin and the Infant Jesus should be in the company of St. Sixtus and St. Barbara. This is how Raphael entered into their views.

(BENOZZO GOZZOLI)

COSMO MONKHOUSE

(RAPHAEL)

MRS. JAMESON

(CARPACCIO)

JOHN RUSKIN

(LEONARDO DA VINCI) 

WALTER PATER

(PAUL POTTER)

EUGÈNE FROMENTIN

(RUBENS)

EUGÈNE FROMENTIN

(VAN EYCK)

KUGLER