Introduzione | Introduction

Writer, painter, poet, art critic and more, John Ruskin was undoubtedly a key figure in nineteenth‑century European culture (and beyond), whose multifaceted nature has been able to catalyse the interests of generations of scholars, even from distant backgrounds. Despite the numerous publications that have appeared on him over the years, Ruskin does not seem to have exhausted his appeal, lending himself – perhaps more than other figures of his time – to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discourse on the arts in the broadest sense of the term.