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
Man, his honour of God, 55.
" his relation to things above and below him, 30.
" not a beast of prey, 63.
" "know thyself," a law to, 22-3.
" strength of mutual dependence amongst men, 77.
" what kind of, occupied by art, science, and literature, 3.
Mantegna, 155.
" as an engraver, _pref._ vii.
" evil influences of anatomy on, _pref._ viii.
" his "Angels," 62.
" his "Vices," _pref._ viii.
Marble, veins in, unexplained, 132.
Margaret, Queen, and the Drummond arms, 235.
Maskelyne, Prof., of Oxford, 160.
Mathematics, of little use to art, 96.
Matterhorn, 70.
Max Müller, Professor, 3.
Mechanism, modern, 34.
Melancholia, Dürer's, _pref._ viii.
Memling's grace and severity, 218.
Mephistopheles, 62.
Michael Angelo, 155.
" " dome of Florence, and, 138.
" " effect of anatomy on, 159.
" " puts orange for red, 226.
Middle Ages, history of the, real and ideal in, 216.
Milton, "Comus," l. 706, referred to, 75.
" Ode to the Nativity, quoted, 198.
Mind, effect of various tempers of, on art, 96.
" its choice of subject more important than its methods, 11.
" safe conditions of, 68-9.
" various states of the, described in the Bible, 69.
Mineralogy, author's early, 3.
Mitrailleuse, the age of the, 34.
Models, may be too good, 90.
Modern advance, probable view of, by future generations, 34-5.
" greed for money, 204.
" knowledge, its pride and folly, 79.
" life, what ideas obsolete in, 120.
See s. _Age_, _Atheism_, _Education_, _Liberty_.
Modesty purifies art, 81.
" true, in man, 30.
Molière quoted, 100.
Money, modern greed for, 204.
Monte Rosa, 70.
Moral temper, essential to appreciate art, 161.
Morgarten, the Thermopylæ of Switzerland, 199.
μωρία in art, how evidenced, 40.
" of the faculties, 9 _seq._
Motives, human, 212.
Mountains, blueness of, at Verona, 125.
Mulready's studies of the nude, 166.
Myths of Apollo and St. George, 117.
" of Autolycus and Philammon, 189.
" physical causes as affecting, 199.
Mythology, 95.
" of importance to art, 172.
" why a despised science, 173.
See s. _Autolycus_, _Briareus_, _Ceyx_, _Hercules_, _Orpheus_,
_Pelides_, _Philammon_, _Pleiades_, _Polygnotus_, _Poseidon_,
_Tydides_.
Napoleon, Louis, 208.
Natatores, (Birds), 187.
National History, scientific view of, 49, 57.
" Life, sources of its power, 171.
" symbols, more cruel than gentle types chosen for, 229.
Nativity, Raphael's, offered to the English, 24.
Nature, art less beautiful than, 172.
" chance and design in, 152 _seq._
" effect of, on local art, 91.
" love of art involves greater love of, 41.
" teaching of the power of the Holy Spirit in, 169.
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