Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin
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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
English
"Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)" by John Ruskin is the fourth volume of a five-volume work published between 1843 and 1860. This influential art criticism began as a defense of painter J.M.W. Turner, arguing that modern landscape artists surpassed the old masters through accurate documentation of nature. Ruskin explores symbolism, natural forces,...
profoundly influenced the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Victorian aesthetic thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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