... intellectuals of the Victorian period. Ruskin is best known for his monumental studies of architecture and its social and historical implications described in The Seven Lamps of Architecture and its sequel, The Stones of Venice. Ruskin was born February 8, 1819, in London and educated at the University of Oxford. His youthful passions for art, literature, and travel were encouraged by his father, ... 1879. He was elected to the professorship again in 1883 but resigned the next year in protest against the practice of vivisection in the university laboratories. Ruskin, with a family histo...

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