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 ...

John Ruskin as an Art Critic. By Charles H. Moore. October 1900 Issue. Share. Save. WHEN in the year 1843 appeared the first volume of Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford, the world of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although critics now have their own television shows and visual signatures – a mustache, say, that makes them instantly recognizable – it is hard to imagine any contemporary critic who … ...

HARRY MOUNT: John Ruskin spent the last 28 years of his life, before his death in 1900 aged 80, at his nearby home of Brantwood on Coniston Water in the Lake District, where he is buried.

Study of the Marble Inlaying on the Front of the Casa Loredan, Venice. Pencil, watercolour, and bodycolour, 32 x 26.7cm (1845) licensed under Public Domain. Image Courtesy of John Ruskin The Casa ...

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. All Sections. Dare to be Honest.

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 ...

Hewison describes how Ruskin’s passion for Turner’s work was founded in his relationship with his father, also called John, who made his fortune as a sherry merchant but had a deep interest in ...