John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on …

Apr 9, 2025 · 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 …

The Legacy of John Ruskin. Ruskin's writing was responsible for shaping and promoting the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement. His style of art criticism was …

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 …

Dec 4, 2023 · John Ruskin emerged as a prominent art critic in the 1840s when he published his series of essays titled Modern Painters. In this volume, he expounded on his ideas that art …

Ruskin was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the …

John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet, and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art …

These years also witnessed Ruskin’s ill-fated marriage to Effie Gray, who later married the painter, and Ruskin protégé, John Everett Millais in 1854. While Ruskin never stopped writing …

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, …

Jan 29, 2019 · Ruskin's coat of arms in gilt on front cover Each volume also has special title page "Two thousand and sixty-two copies of this edition--of which two thousand are for sale in …

John Ruskin was one of the most important art critics and social thinkers of the nineteenth century. He championed the art of J. M. W. Turner and exercised a profound influence on the …

John Ruskin, The Garden of San Miniato near Florence, 1845, watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper, …

Apr 9, 2025 · 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 …

Feb 8, 2019 · Ruskin was plagued by depressive episodes throughout his life and might have had bipolar disorder. His achievements are all the more astonishing considering that his mental …

Jan 25, 2019 · John Ruskin is hardly a household name, but the English artist, art critic, and social theorist was widely influential among his nineteenth-century contemporaries, and many …

May 17, 2018 · Ruskin, John (1819–1900). Ruskin was the most influential art critic of his time as well as a talented draughtsman and water-colourist. The son of a wealthy wine merchant, he …

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) was an English writer, art critic, and philosopher. He wrote on subjects as wide and varied as botany, geology, architecture, myth, literature, education, art, and …

Jul 15, 2019 · John Ruskin was an English art critic, art patron, social thinker, and philanthropist of the Victorian Era. His writings included varied subjects such as geology, architecture, …

Who was John Ruskin? John Ruskin was one of the great thinkers of the Victorian period, and arguably the era’s most influential art critic.

John Ruskin stands as one of the most influential art critics of Victorian England, renowned for intertwining art with the moral ethos of the society that produced it.

May 15, 2025 · Ruskin Bond is an Indian author known for his extensive body of work, which includes about 500 short stories, articles, essays, and novels. His career has spanned more …