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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
May 14, 2024 · John Ruskin, English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change.
Ruskin is considered the father of modern art criticism, and was also a true polymath - a talented watercolorist, teacher, and geologist. He informed the Pre-Raphaelites, and influenced many important art topics.
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. He was also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He was hugely influential in the last half of the 19th century, up to the First World War. Ruskin wrote on a wide range of subjects.
Feb 8, 2019 · John Ruskin (1819–1900) was one of Britain’s most prolific art critics, who championed the careers of J. M. W. Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, alongside many others.
John Ruskin, (born Feb. 8, 1819, London, Eng.—died Jan. 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire), English art critic. Born into a wealthy family, Ruskin was largely educated at home. He was a gifted painter, but the best of his talent went into his writing.
Feb 5, 2019 · John Ruskin in the 1880s. The art critic and social reformer is today better known for an anecdote about his wedding night than his writings and activism. Credit...
Feb 8, 2019 · If we think of John Ruskin at all today it tends to be as the buttoned-up Victorian who was so repulsed by his wife Effie Gray’s pubic hair that he could not consummate their marriage. The ...
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most prominent and influential art critic of the nineteenth century as well as one of the period’s most articulate social critics. He was by turns a gifted artist, amateur geologist, botanist, etymologist, mythologist, and early environmentalist.
John Ruskin was one of the great thinkers of the Victorian period, and arguably the era’s most influential art critic. Born an only child into a prosperous middle class family, his father, John James Ruskin, made a fortune in the sherry trade and was a keen collector of contemporary watercolours, particularly the works of JMW Turner.
