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.

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instanceOf	art critic ⓘ human ⓘ lecturer ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ social thinker ⓘ writer ⓘ
awardReceived	Newdigate Prize ⓘ
burialPlace	Coniston ⓘ surface form: Coniston churchyard
causeOfMarriageEnd	annulment ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1819-02-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1900-01-20 ⓘ
describedBySource	Encyclopaedia Britannica ⓘ Dictionary of National Biography ⓘ surface form: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
educatedAt	Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ
endTime	1879 (first tenure as Slade Professor) ⓘ
era	Victorian era ⓘ
ethnicGroup	English ⓘ
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fieldOfWork	aesthetics ⓘ architecture ⓘ art criticism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ political economy ⓘ social reform ⓘ
fullName	John Ruskin self-link ⓘ
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 ⓘ surface form: Royal Academy of Arts (honorary associations and circles)
movement	Christian socialism ⓘ Gothic Revival ⓘ Victorian art ⓘ surface form: 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, England ⓘ surface form: London England ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom
placeOfDeath	Brantwood ⓘ Coniston ⓘ Cumbria ⓘ England ⓘ
positionHeld	Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
residence	Brantwood ⓘ Coniston ⓘ Lake District ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Effie Gray ⓘ
startTime	1870 (Slade Professorship) ⓘ

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The Stones of Venice → author → John Ruskin ⓘ

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