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.

THE AVENUE OF MIDDELHARNAIS

 

(HOBBEMA)

PAUL LAFOND

THE HAY WAIN

 

(CONSTABLE)

C.L. BURNS

PORTRAIT OF LADY COCKBURN ANDHER CHILDREN

 

(REYNOLDS)

FREDERIC G. STEPHENS

Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers

 

THE DANCE OF THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS

 

(ANDREA DEL SARTO)

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

THE SURRENDER OF BREDA

 

(VELASQUEZ)

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

The Surrender of Breda, better known under the name of Las Lanzas, mingles in the most exact proportion realism and grandeur. Truth pushed to the point of portraiture does not diminish in the slightest degree the dignity of the historical style.

ST. CECILIA

 

(RAPHAEL)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

THE FISHERMAN PRESENTING THE RING TO THE DOGE GRADENIGO

 

(BORDONE)

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

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