John Ruskin was born in 1819 in London. He was the Son of a wealthy wine merchant. In 1833 the family went on the first of its many tours of Europe, and the boy ardently studied nature and painting. During his stay at Oxford he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. In 1843 The first volume of Ruskin’s Modern Painters appeared. Ruskin got married to Euphemia (Effie) Gray in the year 1848. Ruskin is the author of the famous book The Seven Lamps of Architecture. The marriage with Effie didn’t quite work for Ruskin and he later got married to Millais. In 1860 he finished all five volumes of Modern Painters. This work started as a defense of the painter J. M. W. Turner and developed into a treatise elaborating the principles that art is based on national and individual integrity and morality and also that art is a “universal language. Some of John Ruskin’s famous work includes “Sesame and Lillies”, “The Crown Of Wild Olives” and “Time and Tide”. He was made the first professor of art in England (Slade professor, Oxford). During his later years he suffered from insanity and died in 1900.
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