John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.
- Occupation
- writer, art critic, art historian, philosopher
- Position held
- master
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
- Born
- February 8, 1819
- Died
- January 20, 1900
