x, 722 pp. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by Rembrandt, Turner, Ruskin, et al. John Ruskin (born February 8, 1819, London, England—died January 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire) was an English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change.
