John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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 was heavily engaged by the work of Viollet le Duc which he taught to all his pupils including William Morris, notably Viollet le Duc's Dictionary which he considered as "the only book of any value on architecture".Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Read more on Wikipedia

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John Ruskin was a Victorian-era art critic and social thinker. He is best known for his book Modern Painters, which was published in three volumes between 1843 and 1860.