John Ruskin

John Ruskin and the National Gallery | Paintings | National Gallery, London

The Ruskin collection

Ruskin was not always keen on Botticelli. When he bought Botticelli's 'Virgin and Child', from the dealer Charles Fairfax Murray, he wrote to him that the painting was “so ugly that I've dared not show it to a human soul”, and he never mentioned it in any of his writings.

However, in 1872 and 1874, Ruskin studied Botticelli’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. He started to see Botticelli as an important figure representing the continuity between the Greek and Christian traditions. He also took the credit for the resurgence in interest in Botticelli in the 19th century.

Sandro Botticelli - Madonna and Child, c. 1470.

Этой истории посвящены канадский фильм «Страсть Джона Рёскина» (англ. The Passion of John Ruskin)^[11] и британский фильм «Эффи».

Джон Раскин и Национальная галерея

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/john-ruskin-and-the-national-gallery

https://eur-lang.narod.ru/histart/xix/gallery2/prb.html