Click here to go to a recording of our 2009 lecture: Ruskin and Rossetti: a queer friendship.

2009 - Ruskin and Rossetti: a queer friendship

The Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture of 2009 was held on 4 November in Lancaster University's Management School (Lecture Theatre 1).

Speaker: Professor Barrie Bullen (Professor Emeritus, University of Reading)

Title: 'Ruskin and Rossetti: a queer friendship'

In this lecture, Professor Barrie Bullen details John Ruskin's often demanding patronage of Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall. He also unpicks the strands of a complicated web woven around Rossetti's artistic development during the 1850s and 1860s, and reveals how the chronology of paintings and private lives can be closely interlinked.

2009 - Ruskin and Rossetti: a queer friendship