John Ruskin

1819-1900

Gorrge Richmond,The Author of Modern Painters,1843

John Ruskin, The Bay of Naples, 1841

J W M Turner,Mercury and Argus,1836

J M W Turner, Rome from Mount Aventine, 1836

J M W Turner, Juliet and her Nurse, 1836

Modern Painters

5 volumes, published between 1843 and 1860.

Vol 1, 1843 - landscape painting and the defence of Turner

Vol 2, 1846 – symbolism and typology in painting

Vols 3 and 4, 1856 – further aspects of Turner, geological forms

Vol 5, 1860 – plant forms and their relation to creativity

Claude Lorrain, Hagar and the Angel, 1630

J M W Turner, The Upper Fall of the Tees, 1825

J M W Turner, Slavers Trhowing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhoon Coming On, 1840

John Ruskin, Aspen Tree, 1841

John Ruskin,Study of Gneiss Rock, Glenfinlas1851

The Seven Lamps of Architiecture, 1849

INTRODUCTORY CHAP.

I. THE LAMP OF SACRIFICE

II. THE LAMP OF TRUTH

III. THE LAMP OF POWER

IV. THE LAMP OF BEAUTY

V. THE LAMP OF LIFE

VI. THE LAMP OF MEMORY

VII. THE LAMP OF OBEDIENCE

The Stones of Venice, 1851-3

Three Volumes. A history of Venetian architecture in the Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and also a history of the Venetian state.

Volume II contains the explanatory chapter On the Nature of Gothic which builds on the moral precepts explored in The Seven Lamps while also identifying the underlying ‘principles’ of Gothic architecture.

The Doge’s Palace, Venice, 1361

Library of St Mark, Venice , 1537-53

Pugin’s ‘True Principles’

"1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety;

2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building."

A. N. W. Pugin, The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture Set Forth, 1841

A.N.W. PuginPlates from True Principles1841

John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of his Parents, 1849

William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep,) 1852

John Everett Millais, A Waterfall in Glenfinlas, 1853

John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, 1853-4

John Brett, Val d’Aosta, 1853-4

William Holman Hunt, The Shadow of Death, 1870-73

Unto this Last, 1860

I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

— Matthew 20

A series of four articles originally published in the Cornhill Magazine in December 1860, Unto this Last marks a significant shift in Ruskin’s focus; from art criticism to social criticism.

J.A.M. Whistler Nocturne in Black and Gold,The Falling Rocket1877

William Morris, Kelmscott Press, On the Nature of Gothic, 1890s