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Title: Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture
Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #25897]

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

CROWN OF WILD OLIVE
TIME AND TIDE
QUEEN OF THE AIR
LECTURES ON ART AND LANDSCAPE
ARATRA PENTELICI

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NEW YORK CHICAGO

ARATRA PENTELICI.

SEVEN LECTURES

ON THE

ELEMENTS OF SCULPTURE,

GIVEN BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN MICHAELMAS TERM, 1870.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

PREFACE v

LECTURE I.
OF THE DIVISION OF ARTS 1

LECTURE II.
IDOLATRY 20

LECTURE III.
IMAGINATION 39

LECTURE IV.
LIKENESS 67

LECTURE V.
STRUCTURE 90

LECTURE VI.
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS 114

LECTURE VII.
THE RELATION BETWEEN MICHAEL ANGELO AND TINTORET 132

LIST OF PLATES

Facing Page

I. Porch of San Zenone, Verona 14

II. The Arethusa of Syracuse 15

III. The Warning to the Kings, San Zenone, Verona 15

IV. The Nativity of Athena 46

V. Tomb of the Doges Jacopo and Lorenzo Tiepolo 49

VI. Archaic Athena of Athens and Corinth 50

VII. Archaic, Central and Declining Art of Greece