John Green spoke at Notre Dame for the annual Ruskin Lecture, offering reflections on history, faith, climate change and the ...

Whistler paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait The ...

Adams, a 20th-century engineer and art connoisseur who fastidiously collected the work of John Ruskin, a 19th-century English writer and artist. He admired Ruskin throughout his life, saying once ...

Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin and the Battle for Modern Art' is written by historian Paul Thomas Murphy, who has studied at Oxford University. It narrates the story of the artistic ...

Ireland’s ocean literature paints a picture of the seas we once had and could yet have again. The way to recover it, and our ...

“It is only through art,” he wrote in the book’s sixth ... Proust’s fascination with Venice, sparked by his first reading of John Ruskin around 1899, is also given play here, particularly ...

The four ceremonial counties – one of which is England’s largest – each offer their own identity and experiences, from quiet ...

Further back still, John Ruskin, the 19th-century British critic ... arch advocate Oscar Wilde promoted a palette of offbeat “art colors” that supposedly echoed those found in the natural ...

No matter how many people scorn “sad beige,” neutrals remain hugely popular for a reason.

John Ruskin The ski resort Courmayeur ... golf club, pubs and an art gallery. In the summer, the art gallery owned by Glorianda Cipolla, an Italian former Olympic skier, shows temporary ...

He was a prominent figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, Modern Style, and British Art Nouveau style. His work was influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris. Born in 1863 in Isleworth, United ...