The first definitive and full biography of Vincent van Gogh -- the man as well as the artist.

Born in London in 1819 as the only child of prosperous but possessive parents, John Ruskin was a sensitive, talented and observant boy who grew up to be the most significant anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century. His unfinished autobiography, Praeterita, was his last major work, begun in 1885 and written in the lucid intervals from a dementia which finally ...

The book begins in 1859, when Ruskin is tutoring Rose La Touche, a girl of ten, with whom he slowly falls in love. Hilton recounts how this relationship developed into one of the saddest love affairs of literary history, ending in tragedy in 1875. Thereafter, says Hilton, Ruskin' s life was punctuated by bouts of insanity and despair.

Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society.

A biography of 19th-century critic of art and society, John Ruskin. Drawing on Ruskin's diaries and thousands of unpublished letters and other documents, Tim Hilton offers insight into Ruskin's literary achievement and tormented life. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.

An entertaining social and cultural history of cycling in post-war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist.