Chapter III.-Of Imagination Penetrative.
John Ruskin
§1.
Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining but apprehending of things.
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§2.
Milton's and Dante's description of flame.
163
§3.
The imagination seizes always by the innermost point.
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§4.
It acts intuitively and without reasoning.
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§5.
Signs of it in language.
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§6.
Absence of imagination, how shown.
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§7.
Distinction between imagination and fancy.
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§8.
Fancy how involved with imagination.
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§9.
Fancy is never serious.
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§10.
Want of seriousness the bar to high art at the present time.
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§11.
Imagination is quiet; fancy, restless.
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§12.
The detailing operation of fancy.
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§13.
And suggestive, of the imagination.
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§14.
This suggestiveness how opposed to vacancy.
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§15.
Imagination addresses itself to imagination.
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Instances from the works of Tintoret.
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§16.
The entombment.
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§17.
The Annunciation.
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§18.
The Baptism of Christ. Its treatment by various painters.
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§19.
By Tintoret.
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§20.
The Crucifixion.
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§21.
The Massacre of innocents.
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§22.
Various works in the Scuola di San Rocco.
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§23.
The Last Judgment. How treated by various painters.
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§24.
By Tintoret.
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§25.
The imaginative verity, how distinguished from realism.
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§26.
The imagination how manifested in sculpture.
184
§27.
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