LONDON (Reuters) - Early daguerreotype photos of Venice that were auctioned off as an odd lot belonged to John Ruskin and provide new insight into the Victorian art critic's work, the authors of a ...

It is no secret that English Victorian intellectual John Ruskin (1819-1900) loved Venice, and the maritime city was the subject of one of his most famous written works, The Stones of Venice.

A few of the titles retain a distant, once-in-the-syllabus familiarity: “Modern Painters,” “The Stones of Venice” (Ruskin is to ... edition next month, with illustrations by Quentin ...

Conservation efforts by Save Venice restore the radiant colors and empathetic forms of the painter’s monumental work.

John Ruskin and Le Cavalier Iller. Venice. The Ducal Palace, the Zecca and the Campanile with Moored Ships in Foreground, c.1851. Half-plate daguerreotype.

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Ruskin went to Venice with his lovely young Scottish wife Effie Gray (1828-1897), who was so beautiful that she was known as The Fair Maid of Perth, in 1849, to work on his monumental book The ...

Jan Morris said of John Ruskin that he was “for 50 years the arbiter of taste on Venice, and [is] still the author of the most splendid descriptions of the city in the English language”.

In 2006 a set of daguerreotypes which it was believed were once owned by, and in the main taken by, the 19th Century critic John Ruskin were ... There are several of Venice, and what are believed ...