Ioannes Ruskin

Ioannes Ruskin (1819–1900) fuit praeclarissimus scriptor Anglicus, etiam sapiens, humanitatum litterarumque existimator, poeta, et artifex, cuius opera de arte architecturaque auctoritatem et potentiam Aevo Victoriano habuerunt.

Vita[recensere | fontem recensere]

Natus est Londini die 8 Februarii 1819, patre vini mercatore. Domi et postea apud Universitatem Oxoniensem doctus est. Sua studia erant vaga, sed praemium Newgate poesis, quae ars ei interfuit, cepit, itaque, cum valde aeger esset, gradu quarto laureatus universitati est. Mortuus est die 20 Ianuarii 1900.

Opera[recensere | fontem recensere]

Poems (1835-1846)
The Poetry of Architecture: Cottage, Villa, etc., to Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art (1837-1838)
The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers (1841)
Modern Painters
- Part I. Of General Principles (1843-1844)
- Part II. Of Truth (1843-1846)
- Part III. Of Ideas of Beauty (1846)
- Part IV. Of Many Things (1856)
- Part V. Mountain Beauty (1856)
- Part VI. Of Leaf Beauty (1860)
- Part VII. Of Cloud Beauty (1860)
- Part VIII. Of Ideas of Relation: – I. Of Invention Formal (1860)
- Part IX. Of Ideas of Relation: – II. Of Invention Spiritual (1860)
Review of Lord Lindsay's "Sketches of the History of Christian Art" (1847)
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
Letters to the Times in Defense of Hunt and Millais (1851)
Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
The Stones of Venice
- Volume I. The Foundations (1851)
- Volume II. The Sea–Stories (1853)
- Volume III. The Fall (1853)
Lectures on Architecture and Poetry, Delivered at Edinburgh, in November, 1853
Architecture and Painting (1854)
The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion (1858)
Letters to the Times in Defense of Pre-Raphaelite Painting (1854)
Academy Notes: Annual Reviews of the June Royal Academy Exhibitions (1855-1859 / 1875)
The Harbours of England (1856)
"A Joy Forever" and Its Price in the Market, or The Political Economy of Art (1857 / 1880)
The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners (1857)
The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858–9
The Elements of Perspective, Arranged for the Use of Schools and Intended to be Read in Connection with the First Three Books of Euclid (1859)
"Unto This Last": Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy (1860)
Munera Pulveris: Essays on Political Economy (1862-1863 / 1872)
Cestus of Aglaia (1864)
Sesame and Lilies (1864-1865)
The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Chrystallisation (1866)
The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War (1866)
Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work (1867)
The Flamboyant Architecture of the Somme (1869)
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm (1869)
Verona and its Rivers (1870)
Lectures on Art, Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870
Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
Lectures on Sculpture, Delivered at Oxford, 1870–1871
Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
- Volume I. (1871)
- Volume II.
- Volume III.
- Volume IV. (1880)
The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872
Love's Meinie (1873)
Ariadne Florentia: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, with Appendix, Given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas Term, 1872
Val d’Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories, given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1872
Mornings in Florence (1877)
Pearls for Young Ladies (1878)
Review of Paintings by James McNeill Whistler (1878)
Fiction, Fair and Foul (1880)
Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves and Life of Stones (1883)
The Art of England: Lectures Given at the University of Oxford (1883-1884)
St Mark's Rest (1884)
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884)
The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given at the University of Oxford (1884-1885)
Bible of Amiens (1885)
Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers while the Air was Yet Pure among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew (1886)
Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (1885-1889)

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

Thomas J. Wise & James P. Smart, A complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin, with a List of the more important Ruskiniana, Londonii 1893 (reimpressum 1964)
Kirk H. Beetz, John Ruskin. A Bibliography 1900 - 1974, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen 1976

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