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Who else has been on the lookout for birds this spring? 🐦👀

What have you seen around Oxford, or wherever you are in the world? Has anyone been lucky enough to spot a Kingfisher?

This study of a Kingfisher is by Victorian artist and art critic John Ruskin c. 1871.

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2021-05-15

🫖 🌧️Good morning
Yuko Nagayama, John Ruskin

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2021-05-13

John Ruskin, Architectural Study: Three Sections of a Venetian Arcade, 19th century https://t.co/eQwSxtVVft

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2021-04-27

Happy St George's Day. 150 years after Ruskin founded the Guild of St George (an educational charity inspired by his words 'There is no Wealth but Life') here are 4 depictions of St George from the Ruskin Collection - Ruskin (after Carpaccio), Dürer & Frank Randal

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2021-04-23

The Big Draw was launched in 2000 by the Guild of St George to commemorate John Ruskin. An independent visual literacy charity since 2006, The Big Draw still upholds Ruskin's belief that drawing helps us to understand and see the world more clearly.

https://t.co/9U0nWxVcJK

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2021-03-25

The has acquired Thomas Moran's ~1879 watercolor Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.

It hasn't been publicly exhibited in over 100 years, had been in the collection of John Ruskin.

Goes on view in Fort Worth in August.

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2021-02-25

John Ruskin
The Garden of San Miniato near Florence
1845

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2021-02-16

Ruskin Spear's portrait is of the English cricketer Freddie Trueman who was the first cricketer to take 300 Test wickets (in his 65th Test match) and is considered one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. Former PM Harold Wilson called him 'the greatest living Yorkshireman.'

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2021-02-15

I'm rediscovering Ruskin

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2021-02-09

John peintre, critique d'art et écrivain britannique naît 8 février 1819. Dessinateur de grand talent (notamment de monuments), aquarelliste, proche de Turner et des Préraphaélites, admiré de Proust qui traduit deux de ses livres.
https://t.co/6HOqx51FpB

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2021-02-08

I doesn’t look good for the kingfishers in Holland with the forecast of a long time with frost and extreme cold up to minus 20 celsius. John Ruskin, Study of a Kingfisher, 1871, collection

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2021-02-08

The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin (1841). 3 brothers are tasked by a kingly dwarf to deliver 3 drops of holy water to create a river of gold. Only the good brother succeeds as he puts others’ needs above his own. Illust: Arthur Rackham 1932 edition.

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2021-02-04

Puppy picking a fight with a snow man - 2:16pm Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill

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2021-01-25

Died 1900 at Brantwood, his home in the Lake District, John whose influence in many spheres can never be over-estimated https://t.co/Oaab6lKM5u

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2021-01-20

Today is very busy and complicated. But I'll pause to remember John who died 1900.
His writings urged personal responsibility in money & politics.
His drawings captured the fleeting beauty of clouds & old buildings
portrait,1879,Herkomer; St Marks 1846; sunrise 1846

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2021-01-20

E io/ tu diventa due nel desiderio di essere contenuti e contenere in cui nessun caos distorce i pensieri dei nostri sentimenti quando diventiamo noi nel desiderio di contenere ed essere contenuti.

Michael Strunge



Full Face of Cobra
John Ruskin

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2020-12-08