Date of Award
2015
Type
Thesis
Major
Art History
Degree Type
Bachelor of Arts in Art History and History
Department
History and Geography
First Advisor
Dr. Claire McCoy
Second Advisor
Dr. Barbara Johnston
Third Advisor
Michele McCrillis
Abstract
This essay examines how art and gender become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of industrial, imperial nineteenth-century Victorian Britain. Though Ruskin is often labeled by some scholars as a prime example of Victorian sexism, an analysis of his reverence for and encouragement of virtuous medieval qualities in art, society and womanhood will allow us to more fully, effectively and usefully understand Ruskin and his times.
Recommended Citation
Hinzman, Katherine M., "'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 181.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/181
