John Ruskin

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Creator/Artist
Name	Ruskin, John
Description	English author, poet, artist and art critic.
Date of birth/death	1819-02-08	1900-01-20
Location of birth/death	English: London	English: Brantwood, Lake District
Work location	England, Venice, Switzerland, France

John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) was an English author, poet and artist, although more famous for his work as art critic and social critic. Ruskin's thinking on art and architecture became the thinking of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

[edit] Portraits

Aged 3.5 years, 1822, by James Northcote	1843	c. 1850	Portrait by John Everett Millais, 1853-1854
	Self-portrait, 1861, watercolour touched with bodycolour over pencil, 15.2 x 10 cm	1870	Self Portrait with Blue Neckcloth, 1873
Self Portrait, 1874	Self Portrait, 1875		Portrait by Herkomer
1879	1879	1879
Portrait by Frederick Hollyer, 1894	Portrait by Arthur Severn, 1897	Portrait by William Gershom Collingwood, 1897	Caricature of John Ruskin, from Vanity Fair, 1897

[edit] Works by John Ruskin

[edit] Works without image

Hotel de Ville, Cassel
Architectural Notebook ('N' Book), 1849
Daguerreotype: West Face, St Maclou, Rouen

[edit] Landscapes

Copy of A. V. Copley Fielding's Loch Achray, c. 1834-1835	Amboise, watercolour over pencil, 1841	Falls of Schaffhausen, 1842	The Glacier des Bois, 1843, watercolour, 32 x 21.5 cm
View of Amalfi, 1844	Zermatt, 1844	The Garden of San Miniato near Florence, Watercolor on paper, 1845	The Pass of Faido, 1845
Alpine Peaks, c. 1846	Coast Scene near Dunbar, 1847	Glacier des Bossons, Chamonix, c. 1849	Matterhorn, 1849
Cascade de la Folie, 1849, pencil, ink, watercolour and bodycolour, 46.1 x 37.3 cm	Study of Gneiss Rock, Glenfinlass, 1853	Beauvais, lumières à l'ouest, 1854	Mount Pilatus, 1854
The Gates of the Hills, 1855	The Aiguille Blaitiere, drawing with wash, c. 1856	The Kapellbrücke, Lucerne, 1857	July Thundercloud in the Val d'Aosta, 1858
Bay of Uri Lake of Lucerne Ruskin, c. 1858	Bellinzona, 1858	Old Houses on the Rhône Island Geneva, c. 1862-1863	View from my Window at Mornex, c. 1862-1863
Rochers de Lanfon, Lake Annecy, 1863	The Walls of Lucerne, c. 1866	The Chateau of Neuchatel at dusk, with Jura mountains beyond, 1866	Afternoon in Spring, with South Wind, at Neuchatel, 1866
Dawn at Neuchatel, 1866	A Vineyard Walk, Lucca, 1874	Vesuvius in Eruption, 1875	Rouen: River Seine and its Islands from Canteleu, 1880
Cloud Study over Coniston Water, 1880	Ice Clouds over Coniston Old Man, 1880	Cloud Study, 1880	Moonlight, Chamonix, 1888
Seascale, 1889	Lectures on Landscape	Waterfall at Brantwood	Chamouni, Watercolor

[edit] Rocks and Trees

Trees and Pond, c. 1831-1832	Stone Pines at Sestri, 1845	Trees and Rocks, c. 1845	Tree study, 1845
View of Bologna, 1845	Mountain Rock and Alpine Rose, c. 1844-1849	Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, 1847	Trees in a lane, 1847
Trees in a lane, 1847	Rocks and Vegetation Chamonix, c. 1854	Rocky Bank of a River, c. 1853-1857	Rocks in Unrest, c. 1845-1855
In the Pass of Killiecrankie, 1857	Study of Trees (from Turner's Crossing the Brook), c. 1857	Budding Sycamore, 1875

[edit] Villages, Towns and Cities

Itri, 1841	Amalfi, 1841	An Italian Village, Watercolor or pencil and wash, c. 1845	Towers_of_Fribourg, 1854
Fribourg, Suisse, c. 1854-1857	Lauffenbourg, c. 1863	Brugg, 1863

[edit] Architecture

Hotel de Ville, Brussels, 1833	The Piazzetta and St Mark's, Venice, 1835	Houses and Cathedral Spire, Ulm, 1835	The Cathedral Spire, Rouen, 1835
Ancient Maison, Lucerne, 1835	Cottage near Altdorf, 1835	Roslin Chapel, watercolor, 1838	Lady Glenorchy's Chapel, Edinburgh, 1838
Roslin Chapel, Pencil on paper, 1838	Piazza Santa Maria del Pianto, Rome, 1840	The Fountains of Trevi, 1841	Casa Contarini Fasan, Venice, 1841
Naples, 1841	Christ Church from St Aldate's, Oxford, 1842	Tower of the Cathedral at Sens, 1845	Study of the Marble Inlaying on the Front of the Casa Loredan, Venice, 1845
The Casa d'Oro, Venice, 1845	Part of the Façade, San Michele, Lucca, 1845	Interior of San Frediano, Lucca, 1845	Part of St Mark's, Venice, Sketch after rain, 1846
Part of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa, 1846-1847	Under transept gallery, 1848	Caen, St Sauveur, 1848	La Merveille, Mont St Michel, Normandy, 1848
Arch from the Façade of the Church of San Michele, 1849	The Ducal Palace, Renaissance Capitals of the Loggia, Venice, 1849-1850	Doorhead from Ca’ Contarini, Porta di Ferro, 1851	The South Side of St Mark's from the Loggia of the Ducal Palace, Venice, c. 1851
North West Angle of the façade, St Mark's, Venice, c. 1851	Capital 36 of the Ducal Palace, Venice, 1849-1852	Basket and Lily Capital, St Mark's Basilica, Venice, 1849-1852	Sarcophagus and canopy of the tomb of Can Mastino II, Verona, 1852
Study of the North Gable of the Tomb of Can Mastino II, Verona, 1852	Decorated cusped gothic window, 1853	Near Bellinzona, 1858	Design for a Window, Oxford Museum, 1858
Abbeville: Church of St Wulfran from the river, 1868	A Street in Venice, 1876	North West Porch St Mark's, Venice, 1877	North West Porch St Mark's, Venice, 1877
Interior of Lucca Cathedral, 1879	Towers, Chambéry	Column bases doorway of Badia Fiesolana	End of Market Street, Croydon

[edit] Sculpture

The Tomb of Ilaria del Caretto at Lucca, 1874

Spiral relief from the north transept door, Rouen Cathedral, 1882

[edit] Animals

Dead Pheasant, 1867	Plumage of Partridge, c. 1867	Eagle's head, 1870	Lion's profile, 1870
Kingfisher, c. 1870-1871, pencil, ink, watercolor and bodycolor, 25.8 x 21.8 cm	Velvet Crab, c. 1870-1871	Full Face of Cobra, 1871	Peacock's Breast Feather, 1875

[edit] Plants

Oak Spray in Winter, c. 1860	Study of Wild Rose, 1871	Study of Foreground Material, 1871	Moss and wild strawberry, c. 1870-182
Study of an Apple, 1875	Fast sketch of withered oak, 1879	Orange and purple leafspray, 1870s	Ferns on a Rock, 1875
Acanthus	Acanthus

[edit] Renaissance Paintings

Mary Magdalene after Fra Bartolommeo, 1845	Study of Astronomy and Music, Spanish Chapel, Florence	Study from Tintoretto's Adoration of the Magi, 1852	Copy of a Girl in Van Dyck's portrait of The Wife of Colyn de Nole and her daughter, 1859
Copy of the Head of a Boy, from Veronese's Cuccina Family, 1859	St. George and the Dragon, after Carpaccio, 1870-1872	St. George, c. 1872	Zipporah, after Botticelli, 1874
Copy of the Head of St Ursula from Vittore Carpaccio's The Dream of St Ursula, 1877, watercolour and bodycolour, 57 x 40 cm.