St. Mark'S Rest eBook

English writer, painter, art critic, teacher and thinker was born in 1819, in London. Only child of a prosperous Scottish couple, since He traveled to various parts of the world, developing a apparent interest in art and architecture. His mother taught him early to write and read, with the Bible being his main reading text. Since a remarkable genius began to be noticed in Ruskin. He only entered public education when he started attending university of Oxford, there he began a serious study of art. Although considered one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era, Ruskin, When he died in 1900, his reputation as a writer and thinker also died with him, for henceforth his name declines to many of those who accompanied him in the difficult society of the nineteenth century.