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Bookmark or Share- John Ruskin - WikipediaEarly life (1819–1846) Genealogy Ruskin was the only child of first cousins. His father, John James Ruskin (1785–1864), was a sherry and wine importer, founding partner and de facto business manager of Ruskin, Telford and Domecq (see Allied Domecq). John James was born and brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a mother from Glenluce and a father originally from Hertfordshire. His wife ...
- John Ruskin summary | BritannicaJohn Ruskin, (born Feb. 8, 1819, London, Eng.—died Jan. 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire), English art critic. Born into a wealthy family, Ruskin was largely educated at home. He was a gifted painter, but the best of his talent went into his writing.
- John Ruskin 1819–1900 | TateJohn Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, 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.
- John Ruskin | Biography, Criticism, & Facts | BritannicaJohn 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 of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change.
- Ruskin the radical: why the Victorian thinker is back with a ...Ruskin the radical: why the Victorian thinker is back with a vengeance. He believed life should be beautiful, inequality was an outrage and that capitalism leads to aesthetic degradation. No ...
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