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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.
Jul 5, 2024 · John Ruskin (born February 8, 1819, London, England—died January 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire) was an 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 ...
Summary of John Ruskin. An incredibly influential figure, who inspired people as diverse as Mahatma Ghandi, Leo Tolstoy, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ruskin was a complex, intense, and incredibly articulate man.Although he is best known as an art critic and patron, he was a true polymath and was also a talented watercolorist, an engaging teacher, a respected geologist, and a campaigner for ...
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.
John Ruskin was one of the greatest Victorians; his range of interests and achievements were quite staggering. He was an artist, art critic, amateur geologist, a teacher, writer, social critic and philosopher. A Rare Man.
Feb 5, 2019 · Feb. 5, 2019. LONDON — Time hasn’t been kind to the reputation of John Ruskin. Two hundred years after his birth, hardly anyone today remembers Victorian England’s pre-eminent art critic and ...
Jul 5, 2024 · John Ruskin - Art Critic, Architect, Social Reformer: After the publication of the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843, Ruskin became aware of another avant-garde artistic movement: the critical rediscovery of the painting of the Gothic Middle Ages. He wrote about these Idealist painters (especially Giotto, Fra Angelico, and Benozzo Gozzoli) at the end of the second volume of Modern ...
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 (1819–1900) c.1841.
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. ...
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. Ruskin was heavily engaged by the work of Viollet-le-Duc which he taught to all his pupils including William Morris ...
