assuefarsi

Updated: August 18, 2026

You will find in the opening sentence of Lionardo's treatise, our present text-book, that you must not at first draw from nature, but from a good master's work, "per assuefarsi a buone membra," to accustom yourselves, that is, to entirely good representative organic forms.

John Ruskin - Lectures on Art: Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870