"Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870" is a compilation of lectures for visual art students by John Ruskin, a 19th-century art critic. He lectured at Oxford University on a variety of topics, including art. In the lectures, Ruskin discussed the importance of lines, shadow, and colors and analyzed the works of the Greek school of light and the Gothic school of color.

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Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870 By Ruskin, John,

Excerpt from Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, in Hilary Term, 1870 The followin g lectures were the most important piece of my literary work done with unabated power, best motive, and happiest concurrence of circumstance. They were written and delivered while my mother yet lived, and had vividest sympathy in all I was attempting - while also my friends put unbroken trust in me, and the course of study I had followed seemed to fit me for the acceptance of noble tasks and graver responsibilities than those only of a curious traveller, or casual teacher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.