Art Culture: a Hand-Book of Art Technicalities And Criticisms
The book Art Culture: a Hand-Book of Art Technicalities And Criticisms was written by author Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Here you can read free online of Art Culture: a Hand-Book of Art Technicalities And Criticisms book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Art Culture: a Hand-Book of Art Technicalities And Criticisms a good or bad book?
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303 acting on the edges of these blocks, rounds them off, but the frost, which, while it cannot penetrate nor split the body of the stone, -acts energetically on the angles, splits off the rounded fragments, and supplies sharp, fresh, and complicated edges. Hence the angles of such blocks are usually marked by a series of steps and fractures, in which the peculiar character of tlie rock is most distinctly seen ; the effect being increased in many limestones by the inter- position of two or thre...e thinner beds between the large strata of which the block has been a part ; these thin lami- nae breaking easilj', and supplying a number of fissures and lines of the edge of the detached mass. Thus, as a general principle, if a rock have character anywhere, it will ie on the angle, and however even and smooth its great planes may he, it will usually hreak into variety where it turns a corner. In one of the most exquisite pieces of rock truth ever put on canvas, the foreground of the Napoleon in the Academy, 1842, this principle was beautifully exemplified in the complicated fractures of the upper angle just where it turned from the light, while the planes of the rock were varied only by the modulation they owed to the waves.
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