Ruskin's Artists

Robert Hewison

Contents: Preface; Introduction Father and son: the Ruskin family art collection, Robert Hewison; ’Candid and earnest’: the rise of the art critic in the early nineteenth century, Claire Wildsmith; The ’dark clue’ and the Law of Help: Ruskin, Turner, and the Liber Studiorum, Alan Davis; Ruskin and the Gothic Revival: his research on Venetian Architecture, Robert Hewison; Ruskin and Millais at Glenfinlas, Alastair Grieve; Pre-Raphaelite intimacy: Ruskin and Rossetti, Elizabeth Helsinger; The The Light of the World as ’true sacred art’: Ruskin and William Holman Hunt, Michael Wheeler; ’Archangel’ Veronese: Ruskin as Protestant spectator, Andrew Tate; ’According to the requirements of his scholars’: Ruskin, drawing and art education, Ray Haslam; The ’woman question’: Ruskin and the female artist, Pamela Gerrish Nunn; Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite imagination in the 1870s: art, politics and the female body, Francis O’Gorman; Painter and professor: the response of Albert Goodwin to the aesthetics of John Ruskin, David Wootton; The critic as autobiographer: Ruskin and his artists, Dinah Birch; References; Index.