John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, 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's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel …

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.

John Ruskin is a portrait of the leading Victorian art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900). It was painted by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (1829–1896) during 1853–54. John Ruskin was an early advocate of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists and part of their success was due to his efforts. The painting depicts Ruskin in front of a waterfall in Glenfinlas, Scotland.

06/12/2022 · John Ruskin, (born February 8, 1819, London, England—died January 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire), 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 was born …

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

John Ruskin. Modern Painters 5 vols. (1843–60), The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), The Stones of Venice 3 vols. (1851–53), Unto This Last (1860, 1862), Fors Clavigera (1871–84), Praeterita 3 vols. (1885–89). John Ruskin (8 Februar 1819 – 20 Januar 1900) wis the leadin Inglis airt creetic o the Victorian era, as well as an airt ...

14/03/2010 · Sat 13 Mar 2010 19.07 EST. The secret at the heart of the short-lived, notoriously unconsummated marriage of John Ruskin, the great artist, architect, poet and political thinker of the Victorian ...

Relationship with John Ruskin. Albumen print photograph by Lewis Carroll from 21 July 1865 depicting Effie Gray, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place, signed "Effie C. Millais" John Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for Gray in 1841, when she was 12 and he was 21. Gray's family knew Ruskin's father and …

02/04/2015 · Effie Gray. W hen Euphemia Gray married John Ruskin in 1848, she likely saw him as a wonderful match: nine years her senior, he was wealthy and already a well-respected art critic. But as we learn ...

Unto This Last is an essay critical of economics by John Ruskin, first published between August and December 1860 in the monthly journal Cornhill Magazine in four articles. Title. The eleventh hour labourers, etching by Jan Luyken based on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. The title is a quotation from the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard: I will give unto this last, …