The Poetry of Architecture Summary
John Ruskin

PREFATORY NOTES. Of this work Mr. Ruskin says in his Autobiography:—­“The idea had come into my head in the summer of ’37, and, I imagine, rose immediately out of my sense of the... Read more

Biography EssayJohn Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not... Read more

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not, in fact, too ... Read more

John Ruskin attained his reputation as an art historian and architectural critic with the publication of three works: Modern Painters (1843-1860), The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), and The Stone... Read more