The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872Ruskin, John
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The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872
Ruskin, John
Art and science
Art--
aim of what it should be, 3, 76.
anatomy, fatal to, _pref._ vii.
characteristics of:--
eagle eyes, 36.
love of nature, 41.
modesty, Lect. iv., 74.
" of wise appreciation, 172.
originality, to what extent, 32, 33.
refinement and rudeness, 90-91.
sight before knowledge, 125-26.
simplicity before skill, 40.
temperance, 90.
unconsciousness, 53-54.
unity of feeling, 93.
unselfishness as essential to wisdom, 76, 172.
wisdom and folly in Lect. i.
definition of great:--
it begins rightly, ends beautifully, 146.
it needs no addition, bears no taking away, 147.
See below s. _Meaning._
difference between good and bad, 71.
education in:--
generally, 94.
the teacher need not talk much, 2.
ethics and, 18.
the science of right conduct essential to it, 161.
imitative, Shakespeare quoted on, 39.
influenced by:--
local surroundings, 91.
love of death, esp., modern, 69.
meaning of, 38.
national art, proper subjects of, 95.
" ignorance of art, 16.
nature and:--
art less beautiful than reality, 172.
general knowledge of organic nature essential to art, 149.
science and:--
art above science, but must comply with it, 145.
" does not teach science, 160.
" the handmaid and shadow of science, 47, 68, 76, 172.
highest sciences need art most, 45, 96.
simplest art the most useful to, 127.
subjects of art and, the same, 43.
the masters of art, beyond all science, 136.
wise art and wise, Lect. iii. See s. _Nature_, _Use_,
_Science_.
self-sufficiency of. See above s. _Characteristics._
subject of, appearances rather than facts, 149.
theology of, only recently recognised, 46.
truth complete given by art _and_ science, 58. See s. _Artist._
use and value of,
as a means of record, 38-9,
as expressing nature, 41.
practical, 206.
to history and physiology, 38-39, 47, 207 seq.
to religion, 46. [See above s. _Science._
See s. _Æstheticism_, _Affectation_, _Anatomy_, _Animals_,
_Architecture_, _Author_, _Beauty_, _Chromo-lithotint_,
_Cleanliness_, _Colour_, _Competition_, _Death_, _Decency_,
_Drawing_, _Dress_, _Folly_, _French_, _Gothic_, _History_,
_Indolence_, _Invention_, κακία, _Knowledge_, _Lindsay_,
_Madonna_, _Nature_, _Nude_, _Photography_, _Royal Academy_,
_Science_.
Artemisium, 199.
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