Ruskin, John

1819–1900

Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom

Born: 1819, London

Died: 1900, Coniston

Gender: male

Movements

freethought

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Occupations

art critic

university teacher

daguerreotypist

sociologist

art historian

writer

philosopher

poet

architect

literary critic

aesthetician

journalist

painter

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Biography

Ruskin was the most important British architectural critic of the nineteenth century. While still an undergraduate, Ruskin contributed a number of articles on "The Poetry of Architecture" under the nom de plume of Kata Phusin to J. C. Loudon's "Architectural Magazine." He was appointed first Slade Professor at Oxford University in 1868. He is the author of "The Stones of Venice."

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