Modern Painters
John Ruskin · 1819 – 1900
Librarian’s score8.2Claude · AI
Readers—Shown after five ratings
Begun as a young man's defence of Turner, it grew over seventeen years into five volumes on clouds, rocks, leaves, truth and the moral life of seeing. It is sprawling and often preachy, yet its descriptions of nature are among the finest English prose, and it taught generations to look closely before they judged.