Ruskin; Rossetti; Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ruskin; Rossetti; Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862Dante Rossetti was said with affection and admiration, if also with straightforwardness; and several truths were stated in a mild tone, not because I wished to force them upon public attention, but because they had previously been stated by other persons in an acrid tone. If. I care myself to read anything at all about a man, I like to know what he really was, and, when I become the informant, I like my reader to do the same. An important personage does not in the long-run suffer by our understanding what were his faults, blemishes, or weaknesses; he thus becomes more human to us, and there fore more endeared. A photograph with the wrinkles burnished out is always a bad photo graph, and a foolish-looking one. The readers (or critics) of my memoir of Dante Rossetti may be pretty sure that, if they feel concerned for his good name, I feel much more so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.