Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Ruskin II
Ruskin's study of his study. Looks like the perfect life to me...
Went briefly mad yesterday. On the way back from the class, I went into Feltrinelli's while I was waiting for the bus, and in their fairly substantial art section, found a copy of Ruskin's Elements of Drawing in Italian, and bought it.
Then I bought a dictionary.
I managed to get through a few sentences on the train home and it wasn't so hard. In some bits, I could get the general gist just by concentrating.
Gotta learn Italian somehow. Might as well be slow and painful.
Also,
found a website that has lots of Ruskin's works in easy-to-read "English" format.
Ruskin's Elements of Drawing in its completeness is on google books, 274 scanned pages, with illustrations of course.
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