Word: ruskinism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Through the kindness and influence of Mr. Ruskin, the artist was allowed to take from the walls of the galleries, to a private room, whatever paintings he desired to study, and thus he was able to accomplish faithfully his task...
Oxford.- Professor Ruskin's lectures are very crowded, - all sitting and standing room is fully occupied...
...consuming interest, in its last issue discusses the beauty and general utility of "University Hall." Of the beauty we can get a faint idea from the admission by one of its defenders, that "the facade shows an incongruous mixture of wood, stucco, and galvanized iron,' and that "Mr. Ruskin might writhe in agony at the sight of the building." Without having been to Michigan, we have a fair idea of " University Hall...
...south, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." - Ruskin's Stones of Venice...
Fine Arts 3 is intended as a continuation of Fine Arts 2. Fine Arts 1 will go over the same ground again, devoting five hours a week to drawing and one to recitations. The text-book used is Ruskin's "Modern Painters." Marks are given on drawings and on examinations. The examinations include nothing but the parts of Ruskin studied in recitations...