Such, in brief outline, was the state of things in the English world of art when Ruskin came forward with his first volume in defense of the new landscape art in general, and of the art of Turner ...

It is no secret that English Victorian intellectual John Ruskin (1819-1900 ... edge use of abstraction to create effects in painting—which Ruskin also engaged with following Turner’s lead.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bellmans is holding its Printed Books & Manuscripts sale on the 16 July with a wide range of lots. The sale includes some rare examples of 15th to 17th Century books and maps. Christie’s announced The ...

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 ...

Conservation efforts by Save Venice restore the radiant colors and empathetic forms of the painter’s monumental work.

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. James Abbott McNeill Whistler ...

Ruskin’s marriage was never consummated and his wife eventually left him for an artist he had championed, John Everett Millais, who had in fact accompanied the couple on their trip to Venice.

The centenary of the death of John Ruskin has helped provoke a renewed interest in his works, including several biographies and an exhibition at the Tate Britain art gallery called Ruskin ...

And Ruskin would see the imaginative processes.” A portrait of art critic John Ruskin by Henry Sigismund Uhlrich Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Though Ruskin did make art, he devoted the ...