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
"Stones of Venice," statement as to anatomy in, withdrawn, 159.
Strasburg, architecture of, 202.
" art in, 82.
" drawing of house in, by Prout, 86.
Street, E., 50.
Strozzi, child and dog, Titian's, 151.
Subjects in art, natural subjects of national art, 95.
Success, one's own, and others', 31.
" effect of, on author, 31.
Sun, power of the, 100.
" modern efforts to dispense with, 104.
" should "rule the day," 104.
Swine, symbol of the herd of, 69.
Swiss châlet, education needed to build, 202.
Switzerland and Greece, two districts of, compared, 199.
" the Heracles of, 199.
" the history of, its lessons, 21.
Sympathy, essential to learning, 236.
Tabernacle, Jewish, 226.
Talking, doing, and knowing, 2, 3, 4.
τεχνὴ, 8.
Tees," Turner's "Greta and, 70.
Telescopes and eyes, 99.
Tell, William, legendary, 215.
Temper, trials of, 69.
" success, influence on, 31.
Temperance, true, in recognition of work, 81.
Temptations of knowledge, 79.
" Ulysses, their meanings, 74-5.
Tenderness the basis of skill and knowledge, 77.
Thales, 23.
"Theologia," Raphael's, 46.
Theology, more perfectly expressed by art than by literature, 46.
Theology, of art, only recently recognised, 46.
" of more value than anatomy to art, 168.
" science and, 67.
Thermopylæ, blue waters of, 199.
Theseus, Phidias', 39.
Thirst, man's best, for what, 212.
Thought, the peace of beautiful, 205.
" right, the end of literature, 3, 206.
Throne, a Greek word, 7.
Titian, use of red by, 226.
Titian's Strozzi Princess and dog, 151.
Titmouse, a new specimen of the, 66.
Tintoret, use of red by, 226.
" speed of, 139.
Toy, useless, at Crystal Palace, 93.
Trachiniæ, Sophocles', 190.
Trachis, king of, 190.
Tressure, the heraldic, 235.
Truth, completely given by science and art together, 58.
Turner, J. W. M., drawing of seen and known facts by, 125.
" early patronage of, 199.
" pines, drawing of Scotch and stone, confused, 133.
" truth of, proved by author, 128.
" works of--
" engraving of a cloud (Educ. Series, 8 E.), 7.
" Greta and Tees, its quietude, 69-70.
" Val. Plymouth, drawing of (anecdote), 125.
" Valley of Chamouni, 147.
Tydides, 168.
Tyndall, Prof., "Palæontology," quoted, 100.
Ulysses of Dante and of Homer, 74-5.
Unity of feeling in great art, 93.
University, aim of _its teaching_, 4, 5, 6, 18.
" definition of a, 5.
" its function only to examine! 120.
" See s. _Cambridge_, _Oxford_.
Unselfishness in art, 31.
" of high forms of faculties, 29.
Unwise, man meant to be, 31.
Van Eyck's grace and severity, 218.
Vases, Greek, 139.
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