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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 subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy , education, museology , geology , botany , ornithology , literature, history, and myth.
Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. [1] Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters.
Plate VIII - Window from the Ca' Foscari, Venice.Ruskin was one of the first critics to employ photography to aid the accuracy of his illustrations. The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic and theorist John Ruskin.
John Ruskin is a portrait of the leading Victorian art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900). [1] [2] [3] 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.
John Ruskin, Fragments of the Alps, 1854–56. The influence of English art critic John Ruskin on art in the United States began with the publication of his first volume of Modern Painters in 1843. Ruskin's emphasis on plein air painting and painting from life struck a chord with American Transcendentalist ideals.
Ruskin, a Victorian polymath, established the Guild in the 1870s.Founded as St George's Company in 1871, it adopted its current name and constitution in 1878. [1] Ruskin, an art critic, had turned increasingly to social concerns from the 1850s.
John Ruskin, the preeminent art critic of 19th century England. From the 19th century onwards, art criticism became a more common vocation and even a profession, [3] developing at times formalised methods based on particular aesthetic theories.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) was an English writer and art critic in the Victorian era.. John Ruskin may also refer to: . John Ruskin, a portrait by Millais of the art critic; John Ruskin College, a further education college in Croydon, London (superseded John Ruskin Grammar School, John Ruskin High School)