John Ruskin
The life story of Francesca Alexander—the American artist in tune with Italy—is told in new book
New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads, brings her out of the shadow of her friendship with John Ruskin
Exhibition explores the avant-garde aspects of the conservative Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelite movement was conservative: “back to the future” might well have been its motto
Tate Britain explores Turner's time in Venice
An exhibition highlighting Turner's change of style after his travels
New exhibition 'The pre-Raphaelite dream' rocks the Art Gallery of Western Australia
The paintings and drawings on show in Perth are on loan from the Tate collection
A Frederick Sandys exhibition celebrates the re-opening of the Castle Museum
The Victorian age was fascinated by hair, as these paintings show
Current exhibitions and publications on Turner: No stone left unturned
As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship
Tate's exhibition explores the modernity of Ruskin's views on art
His support of modern art was characterised by a missionary zeal
What's on in New York: Museums lend Ruskins for a show at Salander-O’Reilly as Gagosian hangs blue-chip Warhol
Meanwhile, Paul McCarthy and Pierre Molinier provide a little titillation