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In the small Room 15 in the National Gallery in Ldn, hang T's "Dido building Carthage" and his “Sun Rising through Vapour” and C's "Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba" and “Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca”. In his bequest and will, Turner asked for these two paintings of his to be hung together with those two of Claude at the National Gallery.

Was Ruskin upset?

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"in order to provoke comparison between Claude and himself, Turner published a series of engravings, called he "Liber Studiorum" executed in exactly the same manner as these drawings of Claude".

I find it very funny the way Ruskin loathes 17th and 18th century landscape painting.

I am reading this in e-format. I should look for a printed version with illustrations.

End of Lecture I.

He does not foresee that iron and glass will be used in architecture in the future. He says this in 1853, or two years after the Great Exhibition in London for which the Crystal Palace was built, and which caused such a sensation.