The charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy, founded by John Ruskin in 1871.
More than a thousand works from the Ruskin Collection can be viewed online via the Sheffield Museums website. Browse some highlights of the collection using the list below, and read more about The Ruskin Collection
Ruskin considered Tintoretto's "Paradiso" (or “The Paradise”) "the most precious thing Venice possesses" and the greatest work Tintoretto ever created. It is over 10 metres tall and 25 metres wide and covers an entire wall of the council chamber in the Doge's Palace. This painting depicts only a detail.
ViewCharles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919) "The Adoration of the Magi" after Botticelli (1873-76). This painting was commissioned to help illustrate Ruskin's lecture series "Ariadne Florentina" about the schools of art and design in Florence. Ruskin noted Botticelli's "stupendous power" and praised him for being as "high in intellect and moral sentiment" as he was talented as an artist. Ruskin admired the design and colouring of Botticelli's original painting and found Murray's "copy" (which was not intended as a detailed study) to be "entirely admirable".