Giovanni Bellini, the San Giobbe Altarpiece, and theimitatio Christi

Abstract

John Ruskin, the eminent Victorian art critic and social reformer, had a similar ability to see what others miss and he too spent a large part of his life trying to help others to develop "the art of seeing". 1 But he was interested in the aesthetic properties of images. He was in his fifties and Slade Professor of Fine Art when he decided to write a number of travel guides in order to