John Ruskin

1819–1900 · United Kingdom · Pre-Raphaelite

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. Wikipedia

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“Head of Athena, After a Greek Amphora” — Yale Center for British Art
“Owl, After an Attic Kantharos”, 1870 — Yale Center for British Art
“Champagnole”, 1846 — Yale Center for British Art
“Glen Tilt”, 1857 — Brantwood
“The Borghese Gardens”, 1840 — Yale Center for British Art
“A View of Susa, Italy, from the West”, 1858 — Yale Center for British Art
“Cascade de la Folie, Chamonix”, 1849 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Lauffenburg on the Rhine”, 1863 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Coast Scene near Dunbar”, 1847 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Old Bridge over a Mountain Torrent”, 1846 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Old Houses on the Rhône Island, Geneva”, 1862 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Aiguilles of Chamonix”, 1849 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Alpine Scene”, 1846 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Folkstone, Hillside and Church from Pavilion Hotel”, 1849 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“An Alpine Valley, the Matterhorn in the Distance”, 1846 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Vevey, Lake Geneva”, 1846 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Bernese Oberland”, 1866
“Coal Merchant's House in Market Street, Croydon”, 1835 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Dumbarton Castle”, 1838 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“Detail of Carved Pillar from East Door, Baptistery, Pisa”, 1882 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“View of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius”, 1840 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“The Casa Loredan, Venice”, 1850 — Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“Mountain Landscape, Macugnaga”, 1845 — Yale Center for British Art
“Diagram” — Yale Center for British Art
“Four Species of Grasses” — Yale Center for British Art
“Distant View of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville” — Yale Center for British Art
“Tower of the Cathedral at Sens”, 1845 — National Gallery of Art
“The Garden of San Miniato near Florence”, 1845 — National Gallery of Art
“Ornamental Study with Acanthus Motif for "The Stones of Venice"”, 1849 — National Gallery of Art
“Lausanne” — Yale Center for British Art
“The Great Square at Torcello”, 1850 — Yale Center for British Art
“Hills and Sky” — Yale Center for British Art
“Mountainous Landscape” — Yale Center for British Art

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