This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of art critic John Ruskin, one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century and in many ways a role model for our own time. To celebrate the ...

Frederick Hollyer, “Portrait of John Ruskin (Datur Hora Quieti)” (ca. 1894), platinum print, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (all images courtesy of the Yale Center for ...

John Ruskin (1819-1900), a prominent English art critic of the Victorian era, discussed in his writings possibilities for the reconciliation of two adverse trends in British art of his time: the ...

It is no secret that English Victorian intellectual John Ruskin (1819-1900) loved Venice, and the maritime city was the subject of one of his most famous written works, The Stones of Venice. He made ...

WHEN in the year 1843 appeared the first volume of Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford, the world of English connoisseurship was ruled by conventional notions which are hardly now understood.

In the long run, genius can be its own worst enemy. The more difficulty there is getting a handle on a body of work — it’s so varied, demanding, distinctive, provocative, and, yes, uneven — the easier ...

John Ruskin was a complicated man. A British artist in the Victorian era, an educator, preservationist, moral leader, critic of art and society — this man of infinite curiosity sought to implement ...

Ruskin's personality, even more a mass of contradictions and confusions than the rest of us, was nurtured within a suffocating environment created by parents who doted on their precocious and ...

One. The Paragone Of Drawing And Writing -- Two. Ruskin's Picturesque -- Three. Geology, Mineralogy, Mountains -- Four. Water, Rivers, Meteorology -- Five. Places and ...