Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. (1892) (14576568609)

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Title: Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872.

Year: 1892 (1890s)

Authors: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc

Subjects: Engraving Wood-engraving

Publisher: New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co.

Contributing Library: Boston Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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e inferior execu-tion and more elaborate shade which puzzleme. But whatever is said in the previouspages of the plates chosen for example, bywhomsoever done, is absolutely trustworthy.Thoroughly fine they are, in their existingstate, and exemplary to all persons and times.And of the rest, in fitting place I hope to givecomplete—or at least satisfactory account. II. On the three excellent engravers representative of thefirst, middle, and late schools. 247. I have given opposite a photograph,slightly reduced from the Diirer Madonna,alluded to often in the text, as an example ofhis best conception of womanhood. It is verycurious that Diirer, the least able of all greatartists to represent womanhood, should of latehave been a very principal object of feminineadmiration. The last thing a woman should dois to write about art. They never see anythingin pictures but what they are told, (or resolveto see out of contradiction,)—or the particularthings that fall in with their own feelings. I

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The Coronation in the Garden ARTICLE II. 281 saw a curious piece of enthusiastic writing byan Edinburgh lady, the other day, on the photo-graphs I had taken from the tower of Giotto.She did not care a straw what Giotto had meantby them, declared she felt it her duty only toannounce what they were to her; and wrotetwo pages on the bas-relief of Heracles andAntaeus—assuming it to be the death of Abel. 248. It is not, however, by women only thatDiirer has been over-praised. He stands soalone in his own field, that the people whocare much for him generally lose the power ofenjoying anything else rightly ; and are con-tinually attributing to the force of his imagina-tion quaintnesses which are merely part of thegeneral mannerism of his day. The following notes upon him, in relationto two other excellent engravers, were writtenshortly for extempore expansion in lecturing.I give them, with the others in this terminalarticle, mainly for use to myself in future re-ference ; but also as more

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