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...peaceful radiance in the window of Luini's art dazzled Critic John Ruskin,*who called him "ten times greater than Leonardo." Luini, he wrote, "paints what he has been taught to design wisely and has passion to realize gloriously." In that sentence, Ruskin neatly underlined the double dependence of religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Critic Ruskin criticized, see BOOKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...shall at least have John all to ourselves," said old father Ruskin happily. "I would rather be your Mother," old Mts. Ruskin assured her son, "than the mother of the greatest of Kings or Heroes past or present." "They have got him now," said Painter Millais (who married Effie a year later) , "and will keep on either side of him like the two outside horses in the Edinburgh omnibuses, who always suggested . . . that they were taking [the middle horse] to the station-house-let us hope that this may not be realized in the case of poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Poor J.R. | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" he once wrote in an autobiographical verse, and most eminent Victorians would have agreed. Critic John Ruskin put him "first of my hundred authors." Solemn statesmen referred to his Books of Nonsense in Parliament. "Sich," sighed Lear to his Learishly spelled diary, "is phame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lear Without Bosh | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...When Critic John Ruskin accused Artist James Whistler of "wilful imposture," the jury held that this reflected on Whistler's personal integrity, not his art, and so was libelous. Whistler asked ?1,000 damages, received one farthing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dangerous Business | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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