John Ruskin was born in Bloomsbury, London, in 1819. His father, a prosperous wine merchant, encouraged his precocious son’s passion for nature and the arts, as well as his interest in the ...

‘If you can paint one leaf,” John Ruskin once declared, “you can paint the world.” And in “Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin”—the hypnotically potent (though flawed ...

This week sees the opening of a fascinating new exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery that focuses on the connections between two 19th century British artists and a 20th century German ...

I was just thinking that Ruskin had fallen into an irrevocable tangle of madness, when, on page 464, he told a vivid, economical and well-turned story of his dog, Wisie. Whether it was retrieved ...

RUSKIN, Fla. — A furniture store that doubled as a storage building caught fire Tuesday afternoon in Ruskin, causing heavy smoke and flames through the roof.

JOHN Ruskin considered his drawings and paintings to be visual notes more than works of art. A new exhibition puts the record straight, says Duncan Macmillan ...

Situated on the shores of the Little Manatee River and Ruskin Inlet, the town of Ruskin was born in the first decade of the 20th century. The town was named for John Ruskin, an English writer and ...

One of the people who gathered to watch the firefighters work, Ronald Reiser, says he used to live next door to the furniture store and knows the owners. “It’s like losing a piece of Ruskin.

A 19th-Century Glimpse of a Changing Climate John Ruskin’s warnings about a “plague-wind” offer one way of looking at the Paris deal.