John Ruskin当时的生活
完整生平1834–1900 · 工作地
Great Britain
1837–1842
His first love, Adèle Domecq, becomes engaged to another
Ruskin is devastated to hear that his first love, Adèle Domecq, the second daughter of his father's business partner, has become engaged to a French nobleman.
April 1840
Coughing blood and a long break from Oxford
While revising for his examinations Ruskin begins to cough blood; fears of consumption lead to a long break from Oxford, which he spends travelling with his parents.
late 1840 – autumn 1842
Italy with his parents: guided by George Richmond
For much of the period from late 1840 to autumn 1842 Ruskin is abroad with his parents, mainly in Italy, where George Richmond — introduced to the family by Joseph Severn, a friend of Keats — guides his study of Italian art. Back at Oxford in 1842 he sits for a pass degree and is awarded an unusual honorary double fourth-class degree in recognition of his achievements.
1843
In defence of Turner: the first volume of “Modern Painters”
The first volume of “Modern Painters” — an answer to Turner's critics — is published by Smith, Elder & Co. under the name “A Graduate of Oxford”; Ruskin controversially argues that modern landscape painters, above all Turner, surpass “Old Masters” such as Gaspard Dughet, Claude and Salvator Rosa in “truth to nature”, moral as well as material. Reviews are mixed, but Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell are impressed, and the book cements Ruskin's relationship with Turner.
