Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Standard references -- Introduction Father and son: the Ruskin family art collection -- 1 'Candid and earnest': the rise of the art critic in the early nineteenth century -- 2 The 'dark clue' and the Law of Help: Ruskin, Turner, and the Liber Studiorum -- 3 Ruskin and the Gothic Revival: his research on Venetian architecture -- 4 Ruskin and Millais at Glenfinlas -- 5 Pre-Raphaelite intimacy: Ruskin and Rossetti -- 6 The Light of the World as 'true sacred art': Ruskin and William Holman Hunt -- 7 'Archangel' Veronese: Ruskin as Protestant spectator -- 8 'According to the requirements of his scholars': Ruskin, drawing and art education -- 9 The 'woman question': Ruskin and the female artist -- 10 Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite imagination in the 1870s: art, politics and the female body -- 11 Painter and Professor: the response of Albert Goodwin to the aesthetics of John Ruskin -- 12 The critic as autobiographer: Ruskin and his artists -- References -- Index