John Ruskin, English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change. As the proponent of Theoria in art and its role in making art a meaningful field of life, John Ruskin while talking about Gothic architecture and the uses of iron really does not stray away from his teleological stance when dealing with whatever topic. T he scandal surrounding John Ruskin, his wife Effie, and John Everett Millais still fascinates a century and a half after the events. Ruskin was born into the commercial John Ruskin. When one mentions John Ruskin, a certain image of a rigid and moralist stance should be unearthed. He was also – at first sight – a deeply improbable reformer, because he seemed to care mostly about one thing – beauty – which has a reputation for being eminently apolitical and removed from ‘real life’. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was one of the most ambitious and impassioned English social reformers of the 19th century.