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 Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market by Svetlana Alpers

The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians by Jack Rudolph Neave

Just Kids by Patti Smith

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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
by Svetlana Alpers

The Practice and Science of Drawing
by Harold Speed

The Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians
by Jack Rudolph Neave

Just Kids
by Patti Smith