Chapter VII., General Application of the Foregoing Principle

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§1. The different selection of facts consequent on the several aims at imitation or at truth. 74
§2. The old masters, as a body, aim only at imitation. 74
§3. What truths they gave. 75
§4. The principles of selection adopted by modern artists. 76
§5. General feeling of Claude, Salvator, and G. Poussin, contrasted with the freedom and vastness of nature. 77
§6. Inadequacy of the landscape of Titian and Tintoret.[Page lviii] 78
§7. Causes of its want of influence on subsequent schools. 79
§8. The value of inferior works of art, how to be estimated. 80
§9. Religious landscape of Italy. The admirableness of its completion. 81
§10. Finish, and the want of it, how right—and how wrong. 82
§11. The open skies of the religious schools, how valuable. Mountain drawing of Masaccio. Landscape of the Bellinis and Giorgione. 84
§12. Landscape of Titian and Tintoret. 86
§13. Schools of Florence, Milan, and Bologna. 88
§14. Claude, Salvator, and the Poussins. 89
§15. German and Flemish landscape. 90
§16. The lower Dutch schools. 92
§17. English school, Wilson and Gainsborough. 93
§18. Constable, Callcott. 94
§19. Peculiar tendency of recent landscape. 95
§20. G. Robson, D. Cox. False use of the term "style." 95
§21. Copley Fielding. Phenomena of distant color. 97
§22. Beauty of mountain foreground. 99
§23. De Wint. 101
§24. Influence of Engraving. J. D. Harding. 101
§25. Samuel Prout. Early painting of architecture, how deficient. 103
§26. Effects of age upon buildings, how far desirable. 104

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