On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2): A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and LiteratureRuskin, John
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On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2): A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
Ruskin, John
Art; Essays; Literature
(5) P. 108. "_It may be ... it is scarcely credible._" "What does
it matter what may be or what is scarcely credible? I hope the
reader will consider what a waste of time the thinking of things is
when we can never rightly know them."
(6) P. 109. On the statement that "_no vital school of art has ever
existed save as the expression of the vital and unquestioned faith
of a people,_" followed by some remarks on external helps to
devotion, there is a note at the word "people." "Down to this line
this page is unquestionably and entirely true. I do not answer for
the rest of the clause, but do not dispute it."
(7) P. 113. _S. Michele at Lucca._ "The church is now only a modern
architect's copy."
(8) P. 129. "_There is a good model of this pulpit_" (Niccola's in
the Pisan Baptistry) "_in the Kensington Museum, through which we
may learn much of the rise of Gothic sculpture._" "You cannot do
anything of the kind. Pisan sculpture can only be studied in the
original marble; half its virtue is in the chiseling."
(9) P. 136. "_S. Donato's shrine_" (by Giovanni Picano) "_in Arezzo
Cathedral is one of the finest monuments of the Pisan school._"
"No. He tried to be too fine, and overdid it. The work is merely
accumulated commonplace."
(10) P. 170. On Giotto drawing without compasses a circle with a
crayon, "_not a brush, with which, as Professor Ruskin explained,
the feat would have been impossible. See 'Giotto and his Works in
Padua.'_" "Don't; but practice with a camel's-hair brush till you
can do it. I knew nothing of brush-work proper when I wrote that
essay on Padua."
(11) P. 179. In the first of the bas-reliefs of Giotto's tower at
Florence, "_Noah lies asleep, or, as Professor Ruskin maintains,
drunk._" "I don't 'maintain' anything of the sort; I _know_ it. He
is as drunk as a man can be, and the expression of drunkenness
given with deliberate and intense skill, as on the angle of the
Ducal Palace at Venice."
(12) P. 179. On Giotto's "_astronomy, figured by an old man_" on
the same tower. "Above which are seen, by the astronomy of his
heart, the heavenly host represented above the stars."
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