John Ruskin (1819-1900) was considered the greatest critic of art, culture, and society of the 19th century. Throughout his life, from his undergraduate days in the 1830s, to his service as the University's first Slade Professor of Art in the 1870s and 1880s, Oxford profoundly influenced the course of his career. He proved a controversial professor, and when he broke with the university, an angry and disappointed man, even his closest friends must...