John Ruskin

Born

February 8, 1819

Died

January 20, 1900 (aged 80)

Known as

writer, art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist

John Ruskin 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.

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