earth-berries

Updated: July 8, 2026

And Dutch trickeries of base resemblance, and French fancies of insidious beauty, soon occupied the eyes of the populace of Europe, too restless and wretched now to care for the sweet earth-berries and Madonna's ivy of Cima, and too ignoble to perceive Titian's colour, or Correggio's shade. Enough sources of evil were here, in the temper and power of the consummate art.

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