Happy 200th birthday, John Ruskin! Born on February 8, 1819, Ruskin was the leading English ar
Happy 200th birthday, John Ruskin! Born on February 8, 1819, Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draftsman, watercolorist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Our library has vellum-bound editions of Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice, circa 1886-88. Ask a librarian to see anything in our special collections! -- source link
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