 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 pages
...but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...bnt as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 476 pages
...but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 628 pages
...but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. "The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal 1 [On this subject, in connexion with Ruskin himself, see .-1 Joy for Ever, ยง140.] Nature ; the Dutch,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 372 pages
...but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...and affected both the painting and the poetry of the period.] No. 82. NOVEMBER 10, 1759 DISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice of the...Dutch painters, I observed that "the Italian painter attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...and affected both the painting and the poetry of the period.] No. 82. NOVEMBER 10, 1759 DISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice of the...Dutch painters, I observed that ''the Italian painter attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...and affected both the painting and the poetry of the period.] No. 82. NOVEMBER 10, 1759 DISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice of the...Dutch painters, I observed that "the Italian painter attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal... | |
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I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavouring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by this choice they selected the... 
