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1819 born in London. Son of a wealthy wine merchant 1833 the family went on the first of its many tours of Europe, and the boy ardently studied nature and painting. 1840 His stay (1836–40) at Oxford resulted in his winning the Newdigate Prize for poetry and in his determining not to enter the ministry 1843 The first volume of Ruskin’s Modern Painters appeared 1848 Ruskin married Euphemia (Effie) Gray 1849 The Seven Lamps of Architecture was published 1854 his marriage was annulled and Effie later married Millais. 1860 He finished all five volumes of Modern Painters. This work started as a defense of the painter J. M. W. Turner and developed into a treatise elaborating the principles that art is based on national and individual integrity and morality and also that art is a “universal language.” 1865 Sesame and Lillies 1866 The Crown Of Wild Olives 1867 Time and Tide 1870 He was made the first professor of art in England (Slade professor, Oxford) 1878 he suffered his first period of insanity. 1900 Died |
