John Ruskin

✶February 8, 1819

†January 20, 1900

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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.

English writer and art critic (1819–1900)

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