Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1 June–3 September 2017
A week after the opening of this highly-acclaimed exhibition at the Ashmolean, Professor Stephen Farthing RA gave a lecture entitled ‘Raphael and the nine secrets of drawing’ based, rather teasingly, on an unfinished book that he began 25 years ago when he was Ruskin Master of Drawing at Oxford. John Ruskin had personally endowed this position when he established the Ruskin School of Art within the Ashmolean in 1871. Ruskin was a great supporter of the Pre-Rapaelites. It is a nice irony that Raphael, who produced some of the supreme achievements of the High Renaissance, and who was the …