[Gutenberg 8523] • Val d'Arno / Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories; Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1873

Excerpt from The Works of John Ruskin, M.A: The Two Paths; Love's Meinie; Val D'arno; The Pleasures of England; Mornings in Florence; Time and Tide; The Art of England

The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are intentionally connected in subject their aim being to set 'one or two main principles of art in' simple light before the general student, and to indicate their practical bearing on modern design. The law which it has been my effort chiefly to illustrate is the dependence of all noble design, in any kind, on the sculpture or painting of Organic Form.

This is the vital law; lying at the root of all that I have ever tried to teach respecting architecture or any other art. It is also the law most generally disallowed.

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