Modern Painters

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Modern Painters

Author

Ruskin, John

Original Source

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856-60

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Internet Archive

Publication Date

1856

Date(s) of Reading

1856-02-[?]
1856-04-01
1856-07-01

Evidence

1856-02-[?]: "Fra Angelico. 'The little cell was as one of the houses of heaven prepared for him by his master. 'What need had it to be elsewhere? Was not the Val d'Arno, with its olive woods in white blossom, paradise enough for a poor monk? or could Christ be in-deed in heaven more than here? Was He not always with him? Could he breathe or see, but that Christ breathed beside him & looked into his eyes?' Under every cypress avenue the angels walked; he had seen their white robes, whiter than the dawn, at his bedside, as he awoke in early summer. They had sung with him, one on each side, when his voice failed for joy at sweet vesper & matin time; his eyes were blinded by their wings at sunset, when it sank be-hind the hills of Luni.'" Ruskin[.] Joseph Wiesenfarth, ed., A Writer's Notebook 1854-1979 and Uncollected Writings. 1981. p. 43.
1856-04-01: Reviewed "Modern Painters III" in “Art and Belles Lettres” within the Westminster Review, vol. 65, issue 128, pp. 625-650.
1856-07-01: Reviewed "Modern Painters IV" in “Belles Lettres and Art” within the Westminster Review, vol. 66, issue 129, pp. 257-78.

Citation

Ruskin, John, Modern Painters, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57055

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