New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads ...

John Ruskin, who died in 1900, was an English art critic and philanthropist who also wrote on a wide range of subjects. He said, “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, ...

At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona Lisa. Today Leonardo’s painting, happily ...

When the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin stated that a “noble style” would apply to both house and church, he protested the British tendency to reserve the Gothic for their cathedrals and ...

Influenced by the politically radical British textile designer William Morris and the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, who preached the democratization of design and the elevation of the handmade ...

John Ruskin, England’s preeminent mid-Victorian critic ... Frankie Dytor is Research Fellow, literature, art history and ...

It changed the way I look at draping on the human form,” the designer writes of sculptor John Chamberlain’s work.

An electric eraser could also be a timesaver. In the days before computer-aided drawing and the ease of the delete and undo ...

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 ...

By this time the great writer on art John Ruskin had begun championing Millais’ work, and it was while staying with Ruskin in Scotland in 1853 that Millais and Ruskin’s wife Effie Gray fell in love.