Word: ruskinism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR NORTON and Mr. Moore are engaged, with Mr. Ruskin's approval, in preparing a compendium of "Modern Painters," intended to contain the substance of its teaching in regard to the principles and practice of art. It is to be considered as the final and authoritative form in which Mr. Ruskin desires the essential doctrines of his book preserved, as he does not intend to reprint in full the "Modern Painters...
...only an imperfect conception of form can be derived by this means. Mr. Moore has fully appreciated this fact, and with the purpose of educating and training the taste of the men in college who are interested in art, he has copied, with a faithfulness which has won Mr. Ruskin's praise, the paintings, or characteristic portions of the paintings, of some of the greatest Italian masters. In these copies we are able to discover the spirit and the treatment peculiar to these artists, as well as the beauty of their coloring. Some of Mr. Ruskin's own drawings...
Even female education is to have a place at Oxford. The lectures of Ruskin, Max Muller, and others have long been crowded with women, and now a separate college is to be founded for them, for which an endowment is now being raised. The Broad or rationalistic party, and the High Church party, between whom the competition at Oxford now seems to lie, have united in advocating this measure...
...library a long-coveted book, and am hurrying to my room to indulge in the rich treat in store, to meet a real Socrates, who buttonholes me through the Yard, persisting in lecturing me on the Antwerp galleries, which he had visited last vacation, when the criticisms of a Ruskin or a Reynolds might have been enjoyed instead...
...FRESHMAN who wished to read up on Mineralogy began on Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice.'" - Brunonian...