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 ...

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 ...

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 was a complicated man. A British artist in the Victorian era, an educator, preservationist, moral leader, critic of art and society — this man of infinite curiosity sought to implement ...

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 ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the influential writer, thinker, artist and social reformer John Ruskin (1819 -1900), galleries, universities and cultural institutions across the world ...

One. The Paragone Of Drawing And Writing -- Two. Ruskin's Picturesque -- Three. Geology, Mineralogy, Mountains -- Four. Water, Rivers, Meteorology -- Five. Places and ...

Mere sanity is the most philistine and (at bottom) unimportant of a man’s attributes.” So goes one of the best known of William James’s obiter dicta. It is not so widely known that James wrote those ...