John Ruskin: A Life in Pictures

by James S. Dearden

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John Ruskin: A Life in Pictures

by James S. Dearden

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Life in the English Country House by Mark Girouard

Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

The Painter and the Girl by Margriet de Moor

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Life in the English Country House
by Mark Girouard

Color: A Natural History of the Palette
by Victoria Finlay

The Painter and the Girl
by Margriet de Moor