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
Giesbach, author at the, (1870), 101.
Giotto, "paint me my arms" anecdote, 209.
" simplicity of, _pref._ vii.
Gladstone (W. E.), at Nat. Assoc. for Soc. Science, 63.
Glass, painting on, a lost art, 33.
" " orange _v._ purple in, 226.
" " at Iffley, 118.
God, birds' praise of, 61.
" man's honouring of, 55.
" " relation to, 30.
" universal idea of, as Light, 116.
Goethe, Faust quoted, 62.
Good and evil, in art, 17.
Gothic art, modern imitations of, purposely wrong to nature, 145.
" " its scientific side and basis, 137.
" " its sense of strength, 137.
" shield, 230.
Gould, Mr., the ornithologist, 48.
" " his account of the lesser egret, 174.
Grallatores, birds called, 187.
Great men, their greatness in their aim, not their actions, 214.
Greece, sources and nature of her power, 167-8.
" Switzerland and, a district of each compared, 109.
Greek armour, 231.
" " helmet = horse's head, 227.
" " shield, 230.
" classification of birds, 189.
" idea of God as Light, 116.
" mythology, 95.
" patronymics, meaning of, 168.
" vase, dog painting on a, 151.
" vases, Sir Wm. Hamilton on, 139.
Gremium, the, of Christ and the Madonna in art, 235.
"Greta and Tees," Turner's, 69, 70.
Guillim's "Heraldry" quoted, 234, n.
Guillotine and mitrailleuse, 34.
Gules, 226.
Gull, the "swimmer" of birds, 188.
Gun-cotton, 33.
Gyron, the heraldic, 235.
Halcyon days, meaning of, 192.
---- the, its feathers, 185.
" " Greek notices of, 190 seq.
" " myth of, and death, 199.
" " Scholiasts' description of, 197.
" " story of, 172 seq.
Hamilton, Sir W., on Greek verses, 139.
Happiness, in Aristotle, 19.
Hawk, the "snatcher" of birds, 188.
Health, "mens sana, &c.," 68.
" of heart, _ibid._
Heat, a mode of motion, 100.
Helen, in the "Iliad," 168.
Helmet, earliest idea of the, 224.
" Greek and Etruscan, derived from horse's head, 227.
Helps, Sir A., his "War and Culture" quoted, 208.
Helps, Sir A., his "War and Culture," dedicated to author, _ib._
Hera, 190.
Heraldry, a despised science, 173.
" aim of, 207.
" author's drawings of, 112.
" distinct meaning of crest and arms, 228.
" dress and, 225.
" function of, 210.
" Greek and Gothic, 230 _seq._
" importance to art of, 173.
" natural types in, 229.
" power of, 47.
" teaching of, 171.
" the heraldic ordinaries, Lect. x., 235.
" their symbolism, 236.
" use in teaching colour, 114.
See s. _Armorial bearings_, _Bend_, _Chevron_, _Chief_, _Crest_,
_Cross_, _Drummond_, _Embassy_, _Fesse_, _Furres_, _Guillim_,
_Gules_, _Gyron_, _Helmet_, _Ordinaries_, _Orle_, _Quartering_,
_Red_, _Varie_, _Verrey_.
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