Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture
Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
John Ruskin
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Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture
Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
John Ruskin
About This Book
"I must pray the readers of the following Lec-tures to remember that the duty at present laid on me at Oxford is of an exceptionally complex char-acter. Directly, it is to awaken the interest of my pupils in a study which they have hitherto found unattractive, and imagined to be useless; but more imperatively, it is to define the principles by which the study itself should be guided; and to vindicate their security against the doubts with which frequent discussion has lately incumbered a subject which all think themselves competent to discuss. The possibility of such vindication is, of course, implied in the original consent of the Uni-versities to the establishment of Art Professor-ships. Nothing can be made an element of educa-tion of which it is impossible to determine wheth-er it is ill done or well; and the clear assertion that there is a canon law in formative Art is, at this time, a more important function of each Universi-ty than the instruction of its younger members in any branch of practical skill."