John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 Februar 1819 – 20 Januar 1900) wis the leadin Inglis airt creetic o the Victorian era, as well as an airt patron, drauchtsman, wattercolourist, a prominent social thinker an philanthropist.
John Ruskin | |
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John Ruskin in 1863 | |
Born | 8 Februar 1819 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, Lunnon, Ingland |
Dee'd | 20 Januar 1900 Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, Ingland | (aged 80)
Thrift | Writer, airt creetic, drauchtsman, wattercolourist, social thinker |
Ceetizenship | Inglis |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Varsity o Oxford King's College London |
Period | Victorian era |
Notable warks | 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). |
Spoose | Euphemia Chalmers Gray (1848–1854) (mairiage annulled) |
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References
eedit- ↑ In the preface o the 1871 edeetion o Sesame and Lilies Ruskin mentions three feegurs frae leeterar history wi whom he feels an affinity: Guido Guinicelli, Marmontel an Dean Swift; see John Ruskin, Sesame and lilies: three lectures, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1871, p. xxviii.