Modern Painters, Volume 1 is the opening part of John Ruskin’s five-volume essay collection on art and landscape painting. Defending contemporary landscape artists, especially J. M. W. Turner, it urges close observation of nature and truth in art. Its vivid critical prose and reflections on seeing make it rewarding.
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Opening of the book
Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected. They appear in the text like this, and the explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked passage. Sections in Greek will yield a transliteration when the pointer is moved over them, and words using diacritic characters in the Latin Extended Additional block, which may not display in some fonts or browsers, will display an unaccented version. Original page numbers are displayed in the margin as: [Page xxx]. Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE
SEVEN LAMPS MODERN PAINTERS Volume I NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN VOLUME II MODERN PAINTERS VOLUME I
MODERN PAINTERS. BY A GRADUATE OF OXFORD. VOL. I. PART I—II. TO THE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF ENGLAND This Work IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THEIR SINCERE ADMIRER, THE AUTHOR PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at the shallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the works of the great living
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