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 | Source/Notes: "Sesame and Lilies, etc" (1865), p. 48 |
| Source/Notes: The Complete Works of John Ruskin: On the Old Road (published in 1834), p. 174, "Pre-Raphaelitism" |
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| “All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.” ―John Ruskin Source/Notes: Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856). - Modern Painters (1843-1860) |
| “An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.” ―John Ruskin Source/Notes: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (1871 edition) |
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John Ruskin
Born: February 8, 1819
Died: January 20, 1900 (aged 80)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Writer, draughtsman, watercolourist, philanthropist
Bio: John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.
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