Even in 1853, John Ruskin was already through with digital exuberance. A drawing showing that natural lines are more pleasing than ordered ones. Fractalicious.
From the Stones of Venice.
Ruskin’s Abstract Lines
Tag: gothic architecture
Painting iconoclasm
After the reformation, the darkness of medieval churches came to symbolize pagan superstition as much as the icons. So, many churches were painted white, from the stone or from previous colored patterns. The bright, flat spaces were so cool painters, couldn’t help themselves.
Pieter Saenredam, 1649.
Pieter Saenredam, 1650.
Emanuel de Witte, 1661.
Emanuel de Witte, 1668.
Dirk van Delen, 1645.
Or, When the Cathedrals Were White, actually.
