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Modern Painters: Their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to All the Ancient Masters, Proved by Examples of the True, the Bea
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PhilosophyGeneral World HistoryPainting Instruction
ISBN13: 9781020485497
Publisher: Legare Street Pr
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.87
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A classic work of art criticism, this volume provides evidence of the superiority of modern landscape painters to their ancient predecessors. John Ruskin examines the works of J.M.W. Turner and other contemporary artists to argue that their art is not only beautiful, but also intellectually and morally superior to the landscapes painted by the ancients.
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