Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING” (1854)
- PART II REVIEWS, LETTERS, AND PAMPHLETS ON ART (1844–1854)
- 1 REVIEW OF LORD LINDSAY'S “HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART” (1847)
- 2 REVIEW OF EASTLAKE'S “HISTORY OF OIL-PAINTING” (1848):–
- 3 SAMUEL PROUT (1849)
- 4 LETTERS ON THE PRE-RAPHAELITE ARTISTS (1851, 1854)
- 5 PRE-RAPHAELITISM (PAMPHLET, 1851)
- 6 LETTERS ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY (1847, 1852)
- 7 THE OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE, CONSIDERED IN SOME OF ITS RELATIONS TO THE PROSPECTS OF ART (PAMPHLET, 1854)
- APPENDIX TO PART II
- PART III “NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEPFOLDS” (1851)
- APPENDIX TO PART III
- PART IV LETTERS ON POLITICS (1852)
- Plate section
5 - PRE-RAPHAELITISM (PAMPHLET, 1851)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING” (1854)
- PART II REVIEWS, LETTERS, AND PAMPHLETS ON ART (1844–1854)
- 1 REVIEW OF LORD LINDSAY'S “HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART” (1847)
- 2 REVIEW OF EASTLAKE'S “HISTORY OF OIL-PAINTING” (1848):–
- 3 SAMUEL PROUT (1849)
- 4 LETTERS ON THE PRE-RAPHAELITE ARTISTS (1851, 1854)
- 5 PRE-RAPHAELITISM (PAMPHLET, 1851)
- 6 LETTERS ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY (1847, 1852)
- 7 THE OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE, CONSIDERED IN SOME OF ITS RELATIONS TO THE PROSPECTS OF ART (PAMPHLET, 1854)
- APPENDIX TO PART II
- PART III “NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEPFOLDS” (1851)
- APPENDIX TO PART III
- PART IV LETTERS ON POLITICS (1852)
- Plate section
Summary
PREFACE
Eight years ago, in the close of the first volume of Modern Painters, I ventured to give the following advice to the young artists of England:–
“They should go to nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning; rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.” Advice which, whether bad or good, involved infinite labour and humiliation in the following it, and was therefore, for the most part, rejected.
It has, however, at last been carried out, to the very letter, by a group of men who, for their reward, have been assailed with the most scurrilous abuse which I ever recollect seeing issue from the public press. I have, therefore, thought it due to them to contradict the directly false statements which have been made respecting their works; and to point out the kind of merit which, however deficient in some respects, those works possess beyond the possibility of dispute.
Denmark Hill, August, 1851.
PRE-RAPHAELITISM
1. It may be proved, with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working: but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 337 - 394Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903