1889 The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin 6th Edition - Publisher George Allen, John Ruskin (8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900) was an English polymath - a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth