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John Ruskin was educated at home before attending Oxford University where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry. He was considered to be Britain's leading writer on culture and other important books written during his life which included: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Pre-Raphaelitism (1851), The Stones of Venice (1853) and Architecture and Painting (1854). Ruskin also gained quite a bit of notoriety as an artist as well. |