Cynthia Gamble

Author of *Voix entrelacees de Proust et de Ruskin*; Ruskin, Proust et la Normandie: aux sources de la Recherche *; Marie Nordlinger, la muse anglaise de Proust

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

"The torpor of the year when feeble dreams
Visit the hidden buds, or dreamless sleep
Holds every future leaf and flower; the bound
With which from that detested trance they leap"

Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni - P. B. Shelley🪻

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

@thewaronbeauty Wonderful timing😃We'll be seeing this remarkable work at the Alpine Club next week. It's also fitting that, many years after completing its 5 volumes, Ruskin wrote the Epilogue to Modern Painters during his final stay in Chamonix, beneath the mountains that awakened his vision.

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

For #Ruskin, the #Alps were not only peaks and glaciers but also weather, light, cloud, and atmosphere.
In works such as Dawn at Neuchâtel (1866), he studied the sky with the same seriousness he brought to rock and mountain form.

#Clouds #AlpineClub #RuskinSociety

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

Ruskin went to the #Alps with #Turner in mind.

In 1842, among Chamonix peaks & changing weather, he found the vision that would become Modern Painters: art must be judged by truth to nature, not convention.

Turner, The Blue Rigi, Sunrise, 1842, Tate
#RuskinSociety #AlpineClub

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

@HorcherF Great point. Ruskin’s authority came from looking as well as making. He drew, painted, and trained his eye through close observation of nature, architecture, and landscape. He belongs to that rare line of critics who could actually do the work...

[Ferenc Hörcher @HorcherF]

Ruskin represents the genre of art connoisseur, who is able to actually draw and paint.

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

At 15, #Ruskin asked for de Saussure's Voyages dans les Alpes as a b'day gift. Through its maps, geology, & observations, he learnt to read mountains with scientific precision & wonder.

That education would find expression in Modern Painters and Deucalion.

#Geology #AlpineClub

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

The Ruskin Society will visit the Alpine Club in London on Friday 3 July.

Ruskin was a member. We look forward to seeing his membership records, artworks, and the Club’s impressive mountaineering library.

The visit is free. Places are limited - DM us for info.

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

Thomas Mann was born today. His novels carry the same moral gravity and attention to inner life that John Ruskin brought to art and landscape. Two very different voices, but a shared seriousness about what shapes a human being.

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

Glen Finglas and Loch Venachar in the Trossachs, country Ruskin walked when he travelled in Scotland. Photo Malcolm Clark (2020)

#Trossachs #GlenFinglas #LochVenachar #Scotland #Ruskin

[Marcelita Swann @marcelitaswann.bsky.social @MarcelitaSwann]

Happy 150th Birthday to Marie Nordlinger- Riefstahl! Born May 31, 1876 in Rusholme, Manchester, England.

Cynthia Gamble’s biography, “Marie Nordlinger.” @EditionsCG @RuskinProust
https://t.co/oqcBzBlcQl

Proust Ink: https://t.co/w7JBGiHzNC

Review: https://t.co/6Vo6xkdwOx

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

31 May marks 150 years since the birth of Marie Nordlinger - artist, translator, polyglot, and Marcel Proust’s “French rose from Manchester.”
She helped him translate #Ruskin. In 1900, they travelled to #Venice in pursuit of Ruskin’s art and ideas.

#CynthiaGambleBooks #Proust

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

Amazing to think these #Chamonix guides might have crossed paths with #Ruskin. He spent so many seasons in the valley talking with the guides and studying the glaciers.
Thank you @couttetlovera for the photo & info 🤩

#AlpineHistory #MontBlanc #MerDeGlace #LesBossons #Alps

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

New Video: The Prophetic Words of John Ruskin (Modern Painters Vol. II)

I've never made a video just reading something straight off a page but I had to share this incredible excerpt from Modern Painters (abridged by David Barrie) in which John Ruskin links the decline of faith with the destruction of beauty. Although published in 1846, these words could not be more applicable to our present situation.

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

Ruskin’s own love of the #LakeDistrict was influenced by Wordsworth’s writing. He bought #Brantwood on Coniston Water, not far from Dove Cottage. He saw himself as continuing the tradition of looking at the landscape with a sense of responsibility.
#Ruskin #Wordsworth

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

‘The Beginning and The End’ exhibition sets #Gilpin’s picturesque ideals alongside #Ruskin’s glacier studies - theory meeting truth in the mountains.
A rare chance to see these works together at the Alpine Club Library, EC2A 3QF. https://t.co/HcwmV4Zg7e

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

@GaskellSociety Delighted to hear it! #MaryNordlinger sits beautifully among those northern Victorian women who reshaped their worlds. #Ruskin would have approved of the curiosity & companionship across the societies. We’re really looking forward to March 2027.
@RuskinProust @CynthiaJGamble

[The Gaskell Society @GaskellSociety]

We are really rather excited about this! Although not a contemporary of Elizabeth Gaskell, we LOVE learning about other trailblazing Victorian northern women. And any friend of John Ruskin's..... https://t.co/raue4n8vks

[Reg Crawford @RCrawford67322]

In 2000 I visited the Turner: The Sun is God exhibition at Tate Liverpool. The paintings were hung without the usual heavy Victorian frames. They looked like they had just been painted and hung up to dry. I had been obsessed with Turner for years. This show confirmed why.

[Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety]

Today #12YearsOnX (Twitter). Ruskin reminds us that the worth of any long endeavour lies not in its length but in the sincerity we bring to it.
Grateful for every voice that has met ours along the way, & for the quiet, steady light of shared conversation.
#RuskinianReflections