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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the long run, genius can be its own worst enemy. The more difficulty there is getting a handle on a body of work — it’s so varied, demanding, distinctive, provocative, and, yes, uneven — the easier ...

It is no secret that English Victorian intellectual John Ruskin (1819-1900) loved Venice, and the maritime city was the subject of one of his most famous written works, The Stones of Venice. He made ...

THE year 1860, in which the fifth and last volume of Modern Painters was published, was the exact middle year of Ruskin’s life. The great work of his youth which had been his main occupation for ...

John Ruskin was way ahead of his time – recognising climate change nearly 150 years ago. A new exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery shines a new light on his findings. Catherine Scott reports.

Tourism has a very bad press. It’s usually analyzed critically. Tourism brings too many over-privileged, historically ignorant people to foreign places. In the case of Venice, which I am writing a ...