John Ruskin



Alternative names	pseudonym: Kata Phusin; Rŏsŭkʻin; J. Ruskin; John Rosukin; Jon Rasukin; Dzhon Rëskin; Ruskin
Description	British author, poet, artist and art critic
Date of birth/death	8 February 1819	20 January 1900
Location of birth/death	London	English: Brantwood, Lake District
Work period	1834 –1900
Work location	England, Venice, Switzerland, France
Authority file	: Q179126 VIAF: 73859585 ISNI: 0000000121393446 ULAN: 500006262 LCCN: n79006950 NLA: 36583544 Open Library: OL20108A DBNL: rusk001 Oxford Dict.: 24291 GND: 118604279 SELIBR: 208803 SUDOC: 027115607 BNF: 11923137m NDL: 00454991 BIBSYS: 90052728 HDS: 041467 NKC: jn19990007258 SBN: CFIV011932 BNE: XX986494 CiNii: DA0027560X SIKART: 13990442 NLP: a0000001184464 RKD: 68928 J9U: 987007267335905171 Koninklijke: 06898216X NLK: KAC199623782 WorldCat

English: 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.

Français : John Ruskin (8 février 1819 – 20 janvier 1900) est un auteur, poète et artiste anglais, connu principalement comme critique d'art et critique social. La pensée de Ruskin sur l'art et l'architecture est devenu la pensée des époques victorienne et édouardienne.

Portraits

Aged 3.5 years, 1822, by James Northcote
1843
~ 1850
Portrait by John Everett Millais, 1853-1854
Self-portrait, 1861, watercolour touched with bodycolour over pencil, 15.2 × 10 cm
Portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1861
1870
1873
Self Portrait with Blue Neckcloth, 1873
Self Portrait, 1874
Self Portrait, 1875
The New Student's Reference Work
Portrait after Herkomer
1879
1879
1879
Photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1882
Photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1882
Photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1882
Photograph by Frederick Hollyer, 1894
Portrait by Arthur Severn, 1897
Portrait by William Gershom Collingwood, 1897
Caricature of John Ruskin, from Vanity Fair, 1897

Works by John Ruskin

Books

See Category:Books by John Ruskin

Works without image

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

Landscapes

Copy of A. V. Copley Fielding's Loch Achray, ~ 1834-1835
Amboise, watercolour over pencil, 1841
Falls of Schaffhausen, 1842
The Glacier des Bois, 1843, watercolour, 32 × 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, ~ 1846
Coast Scene near Dunbar, 1847
Glacier des Bossons, Chamonix, ~ 1849
Matterhorn, 1849
Cascade de la Folie, 1849, pencil, ink, watercolour and bodycolour, 46.1 × 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, ~ 1856
The Kapellbrücke, Lucerne, 1857
July Thundercloud in the Val d'Aosta, 1858
Bay of Uri Lake of Lucerne Ruskin, ~ 1858
Bellinzona, 1858
Old Houses on the Rhône Island Geneva, ~ 1862-1863
View from my Window at Mornex, ~ 1862-1863
Rochers de Lanfon, Lake Annecy, 1863
The Walls of Lucerne, ~ 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

Rocks and Trees

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

Villages, Towns and Cities

Itri, 1841
Amalfi, 1841
An Italian Village, Watercolor or pencil and wash, ~ 1845
Towers of Fribourg, 1854
Fribourg, Suisse, ~ 1854-1857
Lauffenbourg, ~ 1863
Brugg, 1863

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
Roslin Chapel, Pencil on paper, 1838
Lady Glenorchy's Chapel, Edinburgh, 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, ~ 1851
North West Angle of the façade, St Mark's, Venice, ~ 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

Sculpture

The Tomb of Ilaria del Caretto at Lucca, 1874
Spiral relief from the north transept door, Rouen Cathedral, 1882

Animals

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

Plants

Oak Spray in Winter, ~ 1860
Study of Wild Rose, 1871
Study of Foreground Material, 1871
Moss and wild strawberry, ~ 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

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, ~ 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 × 40 cm.