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1 day ago · After the Shakespearean actor John Gielgud turned him down (Beavers knocked on his London door), a young English writer recorded the excerpts as voiceover. Beavers shot in Venice, London, and Soglio, Switzerland, between October 1973 and March 1974. “Editing of ‘Ruskin’ completed,” he wrote in April.
2 days ago · John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
4 days ago · At the height of the Industrial Revolution in February 1884, John Ruskin delivered his lecture series entitled “The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” before an urbanite audience at the London Institution.
2 days ago · Between 1901 and 1964 many stones were raised, straightened or set in concrete (not always in their original places) to re-create the design as far as possible. This involved major engineering works with heavy machinery which drew criticism at the time as pandering to the “heritage industry”. “Restoration is a lie!” stormed John Ruskin.
22 hours ago · The specially designed Ruskin Gallery is home to a collection of John Ruskin’s possessions including watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks, lecture aids, crystals and minerals, all donated by his ...
5 hours ago · At least 23 Helene-related deaths have been reported across four states, authorities have said. They include: 8 people in Florida-A fallen tree killed someone in a home in the Big Bend’s Dixie ...
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4 days ago · Sistine Chapel, papal chapel in the Vatican Palace that was erected in 1473–81 by the architect Giovanni dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV. It is famous for its Renaissance frescoes, the most important of which are the frescoes by Michelangelo on the ceiling and on the west wall behind the altar.
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