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Title: Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V)

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: March 13, 2010 [EBook #31623]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE KAPELLBRUeCKE, LUCERNE
FROM A DRAWING BY
RUSKIN]

Library Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF

JOHN RUSKIN

MODERN PAINTERS

VOLUME IV--OF MOUNTAIN BEAUTY

/OF LEAF BEAUTY
VOLUME V < OF CLOUD BEAUTY
\OF IDEAS OF RELATION

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

MODERN PAINTERS.

VOLUME IV.,
CONTAINING
PART V.,

OF MOUNTAIN BEAUTY.

[Illustration: The Gates of the Hills.]

PREFACE.

I was in hopes that this volume might have gone its way without preface;
but as I look over the sheets, I find in them various fallings short of
old purposes which require a word of explanation.

Of which shortcomings, the chief is the want of reference to the
landscape of the Poussins and Salvator; my original intention having
been to give various examples of their mountain-drawing, that it might
be compared with Turner's. But the ten years intervening between the
commencement of this work and its continuation have taught me, among
other things, that Life is shorter and less availably divisible than I
had supposed: and I think now that its hours may be better employed than
in making facsimiles of bad wor