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Mornings in Florence

Mornings in Florence

by John Ruskin

First published 1875 · 171 pages · about 3 hours to read

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Volume containing the printed title page, preface, and table of contents to "The shephard's tower," being the photographic illustrations to part IV of Ruskin's "Mornings in Florence"; "End of sixth morning," AMs 1 p.; "The Baptistry of Florence," AMs 5 p.; "The Spanish Chapel," AMs 2 p. memoranda; "The visible church," printed proofs 11 p.; and a signed autograph letter from R. Caird, with notes on St. Jerome, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the symbolism of the Cross, dated 1881.

Quotes

  • “One of quite the first results of Giotto's simply looking at things as they were, was his finding out that a red thing was red, and a brown thing brown, and a white thing white--all over.”
  • “Now, fine drapery, really well drawn, as it hangs from a clothes-peg, is always rather impressive, especially if it be disposed in large breadths and deep folds; but that is the only grace of their figures.”
  • “It is a characteristic--(as far as I know, quite a universal one)--of the greatest masters, that they never expect you to look at them; seem always rather surprised if you want to; and not overpleased.”
  • “I have no time to tell you why this is so; nor do I know why, altogether; but so it is.”
  • “So that my general directions to all young people going to Florence or Rome would be very short: "Know your first volume of Vasari, and your two first books of Livy; look about you, and don't talk, nor listen to talking."”

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