Alhamdamar Mudafiq’s Reviews > Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 > Status Update

Raphael’s works mark the separation between Medievalism and Modernism. As taught by John Ruskin.
‘In mediæval art, thought is the first thing, execution the second; in modern art execution is the first thing, and thought the second. … in mediæval art, truth is first, beauty second; … The mediæval principles led up to Raphael, and the modern principles lead down from him.’

‘… he always did his best. He never let a drawing leave his hands without having made a step in advance, and having done better in it than he had ever done before.’
He is William Turner—Joseph Mallord William Turner. He knows so well that his work is his passion and that he has nothing to do with his purchasers.
‘… his advance in power and grasp of thought was steady as the increasing light of sunrise.’

‘… then, if it is thus wrong to waste the time of the living, it must be still more wrong to waste the time of the dead; for the living can redeem their time, the dead cannot. But you waste the best of the time of the dead when you destroy the works they have left you; for to those works they gave the best of their time, intending them for immortality.’