Ruskin, John 1819-1900 creator text utu 2013 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)" by John Ruskin is the final volume of a five-part work published in 1860. Ruskin began this ambitious project at age 24 to defend landscape painter J. M. W. Turner and argue that modern artists surpassed the old masters in depicting nature. This concluding volume marks the end of a formative period in Ruskin's life, shaped profoundly by his father's influence, completing a journey that championed accurate documentation of nature and explored symbolism through the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Painters Release date is 2013-12-01 Produced by Marius Masi, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Aesthetics Painting ND Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44329 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44329 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134022.0 44329