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
Philosophy
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
Artist--
modesty of, 31.
modesty about, enjoyment in, and feeling as to their own work, 52.
science needed by an, 124-25, 133.
he must know as well as see, 123.
subjects of, not invisible structures, though often invisible
things, 172-3.
See s. _Angelico_, _Barry_, _Bellini_, _Botticelli_, _Copley
Fielding_, _Correggio_, _Dürer_, _Ghirlandajo_, _Giotto_,
_Holbein_, _Hunt (A.)_, _Hunt (Holman)_, _Leonardo_, _Lippi_,
_Luini_, _Mantegna_, _M. Angelo_, _Mulready_, _Raphael_,
_Reynolds_, _Robson_, _Titian_, _Tintoret_, _Turner_,
_Van Eyck_.
Artistic affectation in England, 201.
Aspis and apsis, 230.
Associations, local, to be cherished, 94.
Astronomy--
how far valuable discovery yet possible in, 66.
two young ladies studying, 26. See s. _Stars._
ἀτεχνία, 8.
Atheism, modern, 202.
" " tries to dispense with the sun, 104.
Athena, power of, 196, and _n._
" protects Ulysses, 75.
" typical of what, 224.
Atlantic, Ulysses in the, 75.
αὐταρχεία, 80.
Author: (1) _Generally_, (2) _Teaching_, (3) _Books, &c._
1. _Generally_:--
drawings by, his own pleasure in them, 84.
" leaf-outlines, 217.
early boyhood, its tendencies, 41.
feeling of increasing age, 104.
life of, progressive from his childish pleasures, 83.
love of art, its foundation and growth, 41.
" " and of nature combined, 42.
story of a serpent and, 101.
study of Tuscan art begun (1846), 46.
success and failure, effect on, 31.
various movements of:--
at Crystal Palace, 93.
Düsseldorf, 88.
Hincksey, Oxford, 217.
Iffley Church, 118.
London, watching traffic, 59.
Lucerne, rowing. 215.
Verona (1870), 125.
Wallingford, 240.
Westminster (watching clouds), 130.
See s. _Acland_, _Frou-frou_, _Helps_, _Mineralogy_,
_Sight_, _Water-Colour Exhibition_.
2. _Teaching of:_--
cannot follow modern science, 134.
despairs of return to simplicity, 94.
feeling for Norman art, 92.
his abuse of modernism, 34.
" reverence for mythology, 95.
on Luini, his position shown (1860), 46.
" study of the S. Catherine, 226.
on Turner, his defence of him, 128.
result of his teaching on his early disciples, 42.
Ritualism, not deceived by, 73.
teaches only what he knows, 123.
work at Oxford,
thought spent in preparing his lectures, _pref._, 2, 217.
assistants, 31.
audiences, 1.
plan for lectures, 236.
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