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 ...

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 ...

In 2006 a set of daguerreotypes which it was believed were once owned by, and in the main taken by, the 19th Century critic John Ruskin were sold at auction. Those images have now been published in a ...

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 ...

John Ruskin’s wisdom teaches us to choose love over ego. Discover why losing your pride is better than losing someone you ...

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 ...

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 ...

From John Ruskin in Edinburgh to John and Paul Nash in Bristol, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country Study of rocks and ferns in a wood at Crossmount, ...

John Ruskin was a towering figure in the Victorian era: an art critic, social reformer and all round thinker who had a huge influence on British society. After his death he fell out of favour. Yet ...

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 ...