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Modern Painters is a five-volume work of art criticism by the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old and based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues tha
John Ruskin in the 1850s
John Ruskin in the 1850s
Engraving of Ruskin by Henry Sigismund Uhlrich [de], c. 1860
Engraving of Ruskin by Henry Sigismund Uhlrich [de], c. 1860
John Ruskin by a Roycrofter
John Ruskin by a Roycrofter
Picturesque
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Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picture
Modern Painters
…when he was 24 years old and based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defence of the later work of J. M. W. Turner; the various…
A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645
A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645
The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, Looking towards the East Window by J. M. W. Turner, 1794
The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, Looking towards the East Window by J. M. W. Turner, 1794
An Artist Studying from Nature by Claude Lorrain 1639
An Artist Studying from Nature by Claude Lorrain 1639
Villa Doria park in Albano Laziale
Villa Doria park in Albano Laziale