And in “Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin”—the hypnotically potent (though flawed) exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art marking the bicentennial of his birth—we see ...

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.

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 ...

IV. 1868-1872. IN the summer of 1868 I again went to Europe with my family. During a week or two which we passed in London Ruskin was with us frequently, and we were more than once at Denmark Hill.

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 ...

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 ...

Ruskin who lived from 1819 to 1900 and had deep ties to the Lake District, was a writer, art historian, art critic, and draughtsman. He was known for his published work on a variety of subjects ...

Unto the Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, Watts Gallery–Artists' Village, review - a breath of fresh air The former home of Victorian artists GF and Mary Watts is a restorative treat, even ...

All this flows through an engrossing London exhibition, John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing, at Two Temple Place, its neo-Gothic interiors extravagantly crammed, Victorian-style, with works of art ...

Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art” provides a snapshot of the founding litigation of modern art.

Almost 200 objects are displayed across two floors of a neo-Gothic mansion, a grand domestic setting in keeping with Ruskin’s own childhood environment. Here a Burne-Jones design for stained glass, ...