Chapter I., Of Water, as Painted by the Ancients
John Ruskin
§1.
Sketch of the functions and infinite agency of water.
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§2.
The ease with which a common representation of it may be given. The impossibility of a faithful one.
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§3.
Difficulty of properly dividing the subject.
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§4.
Inaccuracy of study of water-effect among all painters.
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§5.
Difficulty of treating this part of the subject.
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§6.
General laws which regulate the phenomena of water. First, The imperfection of its reflective surface.
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§7.
The inherent hue of water modifies dark reflections, and does not affect right ones.
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§8.
Water takes no shadow.
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§9.
Modification of dark reflections by shadow.
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§10.
Examples on the waters of the Rhone.
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§11.
Effect of ripple on distant water.
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§12.
Elongation of reflections by moving water.
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§13.
Effect of rippled water on horizontal and inclined images.
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§14.
To what extent reflection is visible from above.
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§15.
Deflection of images on agitated water.
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§16.
Necessity of watchfulness as well as of science. Licenses, how taken by great men.
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§17.
Various licenses or errors in water painting of Claude, Cuyp, Vandevelde.
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§18.
And Canaletto.
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§19.
Why unpardonable.
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§20.
The Dutch painters of sea.
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§21.
Ruysdael, Claude, and Salvator.
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§22.
Nicolo Poussin.
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§23.
Venetians and Florentines. Conclusion.
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