John Ruskin
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John Ruskin (Londen, 8 februari 1819 - Brantwood (Lancashire), 20 januari 1900) was een Brits criticus die vooral bekend werd door zijn werk als kunstcriticus en sociaalcriticus, maar wordt ook herinnerd als schrijver, dichter en artiest. Ruskin's essays over kunst en architectuur waren zeer invloedrijk in het Victoriaanse tijdperk en het Edwardiaanse tijdperk.
Na zijn vele publicaties in voorgaande jaren ging hij in 1885 verder met The Pleasures of England en publiceerde zijn autobiografie Praeterita in juli 1889.
In 1886 kreeg hij mentale aanvallen. Op 20 januari 1900 overleed Ruskin aan influenza en werd begraven op het kerkhof in Coniston.
Hij publiceerde ongeveer 250 werken.
[bewerk] Selectie van zijn werk
- Poems (1835-1846)
- The Poetry of Architecture: Cottage, Villa, etc., to Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art (1837-1838)
- The King of the Golden River, of The Black Brothers (1841)
- Modern Painters
- Part I. Of General Principles (1843-1844)
- Part II. Of Truth (1843-1846)
- Part III. Of Ideas of Beauty (1846)
- Part IV. Of Many Things (1856)
- Part V. Mountain Beauty (1856)
- Part VI. Of Leaf Beauty (1860)
- Part VII. Of Cloud Beauty (1860)
- Part VIII. Of Ideas of Relation: – I. Of Invention Formal (1860)
- Part IX. Of Ideas of Relation: – II. Of Invention Spiritual (1860)
- Review of Lord Lindsay's "Sketches of the History of Christian Art" (1847)
- The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
- Letters to the Times in Defense of Hunt and Millais (1851)
- Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
- The Stones of Venice
- Lectures on Architecture and Poetry, Edinburgh, in November, 1853
- Architecture and Painting (1854)
- The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion (1858)
- Letters to the Times in Defense of Pre-Raphaelite Painting (1854)
- Academy Notes: Annual Reviews of the June Royal Academy Exhibitions (1855-1859 / 1875)
- The Harbours of England (1856)
- A Joy Forever and Its Price in the Market, of The Political Economy of Art (1857 / 1880)
- The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners (1857)
- The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858–9
- The Elements of Perspective, school editie(1859)
- Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy (1860)
- Munera Pulveris: Essays on Political Economy (1862-1863 / 1872)
- Cestus of Aglaia (1864)
- Sesame and Lilies (1864-1865)
- The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Chrystallisation (1866)
- The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War (1866)
- Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work (1867)
- The Flamboyant Architecture of the Somme (1869)
- The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm (1869)
- Verona and its Rivers (1870)
- Lectures on Art, voor de University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870
- Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, voor de University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
- Lectures on Sculpture, Delivered at Oxford, 1870–1871
- Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
- The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, voor de University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872
- Love's Meinie (1873)
- Ariadne Florentia: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, with Appendix, voor de University of Oxford, in Michaelmas Term, 1872
- Val d’Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories, voor de University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1872
- Mornings in Florence (1877)
- Pearls for Young Ladies (1878)
- Review of Paintings by James McNeill Whistler (1878)
- Fiction, Fair and Foul (1880)
- Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves and Life of Stones (1883)
- The Art of England: Lectures voor de University of Oxford (1883-1884)
- St Mark's Rest (1884)
- The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884)
- The Pleasures of England: Lectures voor de University of Oxford (1884-1885)
- Bible of Amiens (1885)
- Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers while the Air was Yet Pure among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew (1886)
- Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (1885-1889)