The greatest art historian John Ruskin (1819–1900) was a passionate preacher of artistic creativity “for the sake of usefulness, good, and justice,” and at the same time a subtle aesthete, a connoisseur of Antiquity and the Renaissance, the discoverer of Turner, and a theorist of the Pre-Raphaelites.
In lectures delivered to Oxford students, the author offers his own classification of art schools and analyzes the state of art in his time.
The book “Lectures on Art,” absolutely necessary for art historians and students of the humanities, has not been published in Russian for more than a hundred years.