Two exceptions are “Victorian Visionary: John Ruskin and the Realization of the Ideal,” at Harvard’s Houghton Library through April 13, and the Yale Center for British Art’s forthcoming ...

The Yale Center for British Art’s Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin aims to assert Ruskin’s contemporary relevance while firmly retaining his 19th-century context. For the most ...

LONDON — Time hasn’t been kind to the reputation of John Ruskin. Two hundred years after his birth, hardly anyone today remembers Victorian England’s pre-eminent art critic and social ...

Before me is the world's greatest collection of photographs, paintings and letters by John Ruskin ... taken by Ruskin. There is his huge painting of a peacock feather, used to teach art to ...

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 ...

Image Courtesy of John Ruskin From precise, if skeletal teenage drawings of the Doge’s Palace to emotional chiaroscuro pencil and charcoal sketches and Turneresque watercolours capturing the ...

Critic, artist, philanthropist and social thinker, the Victorian visionary John Ruskin (1819–1900 ... would encourage individuals to realise their talents. To Ruskin, Beauty in art was an essential ...