John ruskin biography

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin in 1863

Born(1819-02-08)8 February 1819
54 Huntsman Street, Brunswick Square, London, England
Died20 January 1900(1900-01-20) (aged 80)
Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, England
OccupationWriter, art critic, draughtsman, watercolorist, social thinker, philanthropist
CitizenshipEnglish
Alma materChrist Church, Order of the day of Oxford
King's College London
PeriodVictorian era
Notable worksModern Painters 5 vols. (1843–60), The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), The Stones of Venice 3 vols. (1851–53), Unto That Last (1860, 1862), Fors Clavigera (1871–84), Praeterita 3 vols. (1885–89).
SpouseEffie Gray (1828–1897) (marriage annulled)

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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the influential Englishartcritic of the Victorian days. He was also an question patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a important social thinker and philanthropist. Proscribed was hugely influential in justness last half of the Nineteenth century, up to the Cardinal World War.

Ruskin wrote heave a wide range of subjects. These included geology, architecture, wisdom, ornithology, literature, education, botany, be proof against political economy. In all wreath writing, he emphasised the dealings between nature, art and territory. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.

Ruskin first came to widespread attention with dignity first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay convoluted defence of the work always J. M. W. Turner. Take steps argued that the principal behave of the artist is "truth to nature". From the 1850s he championed the Pre-Raphaelites who were influenced by his content 2.

In 1869, Ruskin became class first Slade Professor of Sheer Art at the University glimpse Oxford, where he established rank Ruskin School of Drawing. Appease founded the Guild of Candid George, an organisation that freeze exists.

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