Happy Birthday John Ruskin

Born on February 8, 1819, John Ruskin was a rebel and a romantic. After traveling through Europe, he wrote books that reawakened interest in medieval Gothic architecture. He also disdained anything machine-made, and paved the way for the Arts & Crafts movement.

^{Image of Ruskin from The Poetry of Architecture, public domain, courtesy of Project Gutenberg®}

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