ArtJohn RuskinMovie SetsAbraham LincolnOld PhotosHistorical FiguresPhotographerWhy Old Buildings Should be Respected - OldHouseGuy Blogjohn ruskin seven lamps of architecture explains why old buildings should be respected and prevented from being remodeled or altered in an insensitive manner
Napoleonic WarsRobert Baden PowellJohn Everett MillaisJohn RuskinPre RaphaeliteThe OratorArt HistorianSocial ChangePortrait GalleryJohn Ruskin | Biography, Criticism, & FactsJohn Ruskin, English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change.
ArtWaterJohn RuskinVisual ArtPainterAmboise by John Ruskin. Watercolor over pencil highlig. 43.8 x 28.6 cms | 17 ¼ x 11 ¼ ins. Private collection,
Painting & DrawingJohn RuskinWatercolor ArchitectureOld BuildingArchitecture SketchArchitecture DrawingArt And ArchitectureArchitecture ArtThe SouthJohn Ruskin, a Wreath of Emotion | Verlyn KlinkenborgI can no longer sum up John Ruskin as neatly as I did when I was working at the Morgan Library. I was a young, privateering scholar then, conducting swift, efficient raids on the legacy of one writer after another as the manuscript exhibition came together. Ruskin was a prescient critic of the industrializing world around him and an early witness of climate change, as Tim Barringer notes in Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of Ruskin, the catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name…
Venice DrawingAntique DrawingBuilding DetailsJohn RuskinAcanthus LeavesEnglish ArtMellow YellowArchitectural ElementsSanta MariaAshmolean − The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at OxfordWelcome to the Ashmolean Museum's Elements of Drawing website, presenting John Ruskin’s teaching collection and his instructions to students at his drawing school in Oxford.
VeniceArt CinemaJohn RuskinA DrawingWall Art Home DecorArt Home DecorWall Art HomeArt HomePalaceGallery of 8 Architects Whose Names Became Architectural Styles - 6Image 6 of 9 from gallery of 8 Architects Whose Names Became Architectural Styles. Lithograph on paper by John Ruskin. Image © Flickr user eoskins licensed under CC BY 2.0
CroquisTree Drawings PencilLucca ItalyJohn Everett MillaisJohn RuskinGenius LociSan MartinoToned PaperPre RaphaeliteJohn Ruskin, H.R.W.S. (London 1819-1900) , Apse at the east-end of the Cathedral of San Martino, Lucca, Italy | Christie'sApse at the east-end of the Cathedral of San Martino, Lucca, Italy
Art LayersFitzwilliam MuseumBritish LandscapePre Raphaelite BrotherhoodJohn Everett MillaisJohn RuskinPre RaphaeliteEnglish ArtistsBritish ArtThe Polymathic Mind of John RuskinRuskin was captivated with more than just art and architecture. He wrote at some length on geology, mythology, crystallography, ornithology, herpetology — and who knows what else.
Elements Of DrawingAshmolean MuseumPre Raphaelite ArtJohn Everett MillaisClaude Monet ArtVincent Van Gogh ArtJohn RuskinDrawing SchoolWatercolor ArchitectureAshmolean − The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at OxfordWelcome to the Ashmolean Museum's Elements of Drawing website, presenting John Ruskin’s teaching collection and his instructions to students at his drawing school in Oxford.
CroquisArchitecture AntiqueJohn Everett MillaisJohn RuskinEnglish ArtPre RaphaeliteArchitecture IllustrationGothic ArchitectureArchitecture SketchRuskin J. The Seven Lamps of Architecture : with illustrations, drawn by the author. — Sixth edition. — Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, 1889The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic and theorist John Ruskin. The 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture, which he later enlarged upon in the three-volume The Stones of Venice. To an extent, they codified some of the contemporary thinking behind the Gothic Revival. At the