Frederick Hollyer, “Portrait of John Ruskin (Datur Hora Quieti)” (ca. 1894), platinum print, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (all images courtesy of the Yale Center for ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1" (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), oil on canvas (all images courtesy Pegasus Books) Paul Thomas Murphy’s fluent and ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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) exhibition at the ...

John Ruskin was the art critic to end all art critics; more than that, he was a sort of Jay Jopling of his time, who tirelessly promoted the Young British Artists (YBAs) - Turner and the ...

What are you rebelling against? If you had asked this of the founders of the aesthetic movement, whose art is surveyed from this week at the V&A and whose ideas I describe here, they might have said ...

John Ruskin and Le Cavalier Iller. Venice. The Ducal Palace, the Zecca and the Campanile with Moored Ships in Foreground, c.1851. Half-plate daguerreotype. Le ...

Institutions are getting ready to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The Victorian writer and reformer is best known for championing the work of J.M.W. Turner, the ...

Time has not been kind to John Ruskin whose marriage failure is the subject of new film Effie Gray, says Sarah Crompton Dakota Fanning and Greg Wise as Effie Gray and John Ruskin in the new film ...

On the shores of Coniston Water, in the shadow of The Old Man, is Brantwood the home of John Ruskin. John Ruskin was born in London in 1819. He was the son of a sherry merchant and a Croydon inn ...