John Ruskin

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art critic human lecturer philanthropist social thinker writer

John Ruskin was a prominent 19th-century English art critic, social thinker, and writer whose works profoundly influenced Victorian aesthetics, architecture, and social reform movements.

Aliases (1)

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Statements (89)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art critic → human → lecturer → philanthropist → social thinker → writer →
awardReceived	Newdigate Prize →
burialPlace	Coniston churchyard →
causeOfMarriageEnd	annulment →
countryOfCitizenship	England → United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1819-02-08 →
dateOfDeath	1900-01-20 →
describedBySource	Encyclopaedia Britannica → Oxford Dictionary of National Biography →
educatedAt	Christ Church, Oxford → University of Oxford NERFINISHED →
endTime	1879 (first tenure as Slade Professor) →
era	Victorian era →
ethnicGroup	English →
familyName	Ruskin →
fieldOfWork	aesthetics → architecture → art criticism → literary criticism → political economy → social reform →
fullName	John Ruskin →
genre	art criticism → essay → non-fiction → social criticism →
givenName	John →
influenced	Arts and Crafts movement → Leo Tolstoy → Mahatma Gandhi → Marcel Proust → Modernist architecture critics → William Morris → social reform movements →
influencedBy	Bible → J. M. W. Turner → Samuel Taylor Coleridge → Thomas Carlyle →
knownFor	critique of industrial capitalism → defence of J. M. W. Turner → influence on Victorian social reform → theory of the Gothic in architecture →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
marriageEnd	1854 →
marriageStart	1848 →
memberOf	Royal Academy of Arts (honorary associations and circles) →
movement	Christian socialism → Gothic Revival → Victorian art criticism →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableIdea	critique of laissez-faire economics → moral and social responsibility of art → truth to nature in art →
notableWork	Fors Clavigera → Modern Painters → Sesame and Lilies → The Crown of Wild Olive → The Seven Lamps of Architecture → The Stones of Venice → Unto This Last →
occupation	art critic → lecturer → painter → philosopher → poet → social reformer → writer →
placeOfBirth	London → United Kingdom →
placeOfDeath	Brantwood → Coniston → Cumbria → England →
positionHeld	Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford →
religion	Christianity → Protestantism →
residence	Brantwood → Coniston → Lake District →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Effie Gray →
startTime	1870 (Slade Professorship) →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society → Arts and Crafts movement → C. R. Ashbee → Charles Eliot Norton → Hendrik Petrus Berlage → Leopold Eidlitz → Marcel Proust → Oscar Wilde → William Holman Hunt → William Morris →	influencedBy
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin → Thomas Carlyle →	influenced
John Ruskin ("Ruskin") →	familyName
John Ruskin →	fullName
Arts and Crafts movement →	hasKeyFigure
Christ Church, Oxford →	hasNotableAlumnus
Denmark Hill →	hasNotableResident
Effie Gray →	mainCharacter
Anglia Ruskin University →	namedAfter
Victorian era →	notableFigure
Elizabeth Siddal →	patron
Edward John Eyre →	supportedBy