 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 332 pages
...of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty s certainly of a lower order, that ought to give place...other. If my opinion were asked concerning the works of Michel Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this mechanical merit, I should... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 476 pages
...in tbe Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 458 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say they would not only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 640 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say, they would not only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 372 pages
...of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. "If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether...mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say, they would not only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 372 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 370 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. "If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
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... minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of Nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly... 
