WHEN in the year 1843 appeared the first volume of Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford, the world of English connoisseurship was ruled by conventional notions which are hardly now understood.
IN HIS HEYDAY John Ruskin exercised the sort of influence that today’s hyperactive “thought leaders” and “taste makers” can only dream of. Oxford University named not one but two institutions after ...
Though you might not know it since the Denver Art Museum displays so little of the collection at one time, the DAM has a wealth of architecture, design and graphics articles. Among the 12,000 objects ...