John Ruskin

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61. The distinctions between schools of art which I have so often asked you to observe are, you must be aware, founded only on the excess of certain qualities in one group of painters over another, or the difference in their tendencies; and not in the absolute possession by one group, and absence in the rest, of any given skill.

FOOTNOTES

 

[1] "Lectures on Art, 1870," § 23.

[2] National Gallery, No. 812.

[3] Make a note of these points:

1. Date, time of day, temperature, direction and force of wind.

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE

 

(TITIAN)

EDWARD T. COOK

THE DEATH OF PROCRIS

 

(PIERO DI COSIMO)

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE

 

(TINTORET)

HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE

THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN

 

(FRA ANGELICO)

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

THE MARRIAGE IN CANA

 

(TINTORET)

JOHN RUSKIN

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE

 

ANONYMOUS

Titian's magnificent pictures in the Ducal Palace were, all but one, destroyed by fire the year after his death; but his impetuous rival, Tintoretto, is abundantly represented there.

JUDITH

 

(SANDRO BOTTICELLI)

MAURICE HEWLETT

MADAME DE POMPADOUR

 

(DE LA TOUR)

CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE

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