The Eagle's Nest

by John Ruskin

Book Overview

Excerpt from The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art; Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872

Botticelli and Holbein studied the face first, and the limbs secondarily; and the works they have left are there fore without exception precious; yet saddened and cor rupted by the influence which the contemporary masters of body-drawing exercised on them; and at last eclipsed by their false fame...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1717423337
• ISBN13: 9781717423337
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"