John Ruskin

(1819–1900)

The artist’s works:

Snow Capped Alps
c.1845–1849
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton

Budding Sycamore
1875
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Head of lake of Geneva
s.d.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Sketches of a secretary vulture
s.d.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton

View of S. Anastasia at Verona
s.d.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Works:

• A Joy For Ever (English)

• Aratra Pentelici (English)

• Ariadne Florentina (English)

• Arrows of the Chace, Vol. 1 (English)

• Arrows of the Chace, Vol. 2 (English)

• Fors Clavigera, Vol. 1 (English)

• Fors Clavigera, Vol. 2 (English)

• Fors Clavigera, Vol. 3 (English)

• Fors Clavigera, Vol. 4 (English)

• Fors Clavigera, Vol. 5 (English)

• Frondes Agrestes (English)

• Giotto and his works in Padua (English)

• Hortus Inclusus (English)

• Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Edinburgh, 1853 (English)

• Lectures on Art, University of Oxford, 1870 (English)

• Lectures on Landscape (English)

• Letters to the Clergy on the Lord’s Prayer and the Church (English)

• Love’s Meinie (English)

• Modern Painters. Vol. 1 (English)

• Modern Painters, Vol. 2 (English)

• Modern Painters, Vol. 3 (English)

• Modern Painters, Vol. 4 (English)

• Modern Painters, Vol. 5 (English)

• Mornings in Florence (English)

• Of Vulgarity (English)

• On the Old Road, Vol. 1 (English)

• On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (English)

• Our Fathers Have Told Us (English)

• Proserpina, Vol. 1 (English)

• Proserpina, Vol. 2 (English)

• Saint Ursula (English)

• Sesame and Lilies (English)

• The Crown of Wild Olive (English)

• The Eagle’s Nest (English)

• The Elements of Drawing (English)

• The Elements of Perspective (English)

• The Ethics of the Dust (English)

• The Harbours of England (English)

• The King of the Golden River (English)

• The Pleasures of England (English)

• The Poetry of Architecture (English)

• The Queen of the Air (English)

• The Seven Lamps of Architecture (English)

• The Stones of Venice, Vol. 1 (English)

• The Stones of Venice, Vol. 2 (English)

• The Stones of Venice, Vol. 3 (English)

• The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (English)

• The Two Paths (English)

• Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne (English)

• Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy (English)

• Val d’Arno (English)

William Bell Scott, John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti by W. & D. Downey.

Born February 8 1819 London (England)
Died January 20 1900 Coniston (England)
Occupation Art Critic Economist
Occupation Journalist Literary critic
Occupation Painter Philosopher
Occupation Polymath Professor
Occupation Translator Writer