Word: ruskinians
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...step into “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle,” you immediately feel at home. The deep burgundy walls accented with gold-framed watercolors create a warm, inviting environment that seduces you to stay for hours, and by the middle of the show, you are truly convinced that you are not standing in a museum, but looking at Norton’s private collection in the study of his Cambridge home.Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art, and Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American...
Later, in 1959, when I went to Dartmouth College, it was a recapitulation of the same process of identification. The Ruskinian-Romanesque college chapel at Dartmouth had been built in the memory of an ancestor of mine, Daniel Gustavus Rollins. I had been reading the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine since the fourth grade, had attended football games played by my brother Phillip, had heard of my father's kicking a field goal which helped Dartmouth beat Princeton in 1929. With all of this lore behind me, I studied the freshman manual, learned all of the Dartmouth songs before I arrived...
...concentrated instead on making an artistic "Center of the World" out of his Hudson River estate. At Olana (thought to be a corruption of the Arabic meaning "our place on high"), Church once again spoke superbly for his age. An eclectic marvel combining elements of Italian villa, Gothic revival, Ruskinian Venetian, French mansard, the mansion stands amid 327 acres of woods and meadow, chock-full of Oriental rugs, Thonet chairs, Tiffany glass and Persian tiles...
...path only so far as to upset their faith in their old ideas of art. These substitute in its place such a doubt of their power to appreciate works of true genius, and such a fear lest their ignorance of some technical point may lead them into some un-Ruskinian expression of admiration, that the pleasure which they feel in contemplating masterpieces is greatly blunted, if not totally destroyed...
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