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Title: Lectures on Art
Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: September 3, 2006 [EBook #19164]

Language: English

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Library Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN

CROWN OF WILD OLIVE

TIME AND TIDE

QUEEN OF THE AIR

LECTURES ON ART AND LANDSCAPE

ARATRA PENTELICI

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

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LECTURES ON ART.

DELIVERED

BEFORE THE

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

IN HILARY TERM, 1870.

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CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

INAUGURAL 1

LECTURE II.

THE RELATION OF ART TO RELIGION 24

LECTURE III.

THE RELATION OF ART TO MORALS 46

LECTURE IV.

THE RELATION OF ART TO USE 66

LECTURE V.

LINE 86

LECTURE VI.

LIGHT 102

LECTURE VII.

COLOUR 123

PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1887.

The following 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 traveler, or casual
teacher.

Men of the present world may smile at the sanguine utterances of the
first four lectures: but it has not been wholly my own fa