Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference
HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN; WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST 56 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Designed And Drawn On Wood By Richard Doyle SUBJECTS. ENGRAVERS. PAGE South-West Wind, Esq., knocking at the Black Brothers' doo...
HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN; WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST 56 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Designed And Drawn On Wood B...
11. VOLUME I.12. CHAPTER XIV. THE FRUIT GIFTCONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Life of Ruskin The Unity of Ruskin's Writings Ruskin's Style SELECTIONS FROM MODERN PAINTERS The Earth-Veil The Mountain Glory Sunrise on the Alps The...
13. PART I.—THE COTTAGE.I. THE LOWLAND COTTAGE—ENGLAND AND FRANCE 7 II. THE LOWLAND COTTAGE—ITALY 15 III. THE MOUNTAIN COTTAGE—SWITZERLAND 25 IV. THE MOUNTAIN COTTAGE—WESTMORELAND 35 V. A CHAPTER ON CH...
14. PART II.—THE VILLA.I. THE MOUNTAIN VILLA—LAGO DI COMO 67 II. THE MOUNTAIN VILLA—LAGO DI COMO (CONTINUED) 80 III. THE ITALIAN VILLA (CONCLUDED) 94 IV. THE LOWLAND VILLA—ENGLAND 104 V. THE ENGLISH V...
15. Chapter IV. — Interpretations88 Appendix I. — Chronological List of Principal Events referred to in the 'Bible of Amiens' 143 Appendix II. — References Explanatory of Photographs to Chapter IV 144 Appendix...
16. LETTER III.17. CHAPTER XXX.The Vestibule, 349 APPENDIX. 1. Foundation of Venice, 359 2. Power of the Doges, 360 3. Serrar del Consiglio, 360 4. Pietro di Castello, 361xiv 5. Papal Power in Venice, 362 6....
18. CHAPTER VIII.The Ducal Palace, 281 APPENDIX. 1. The Gondolier’s Cry, 375 2. Our Lady of Salvation, 378 3. Tides of Venice and Measures at Torcello, 378 4. Date of the Duomo of Torcello, 380...
19. CHAPTER IV.Conclusion, 166 APPENDIX. 1. Architect of the Ducal Palace, 199 2. Theology of Spenser, 205 3. Austrian Government in Italy, 209 4. Date of the Palaces of the Byzantine Renaissa...
20. CHAPTER VII.LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING. Preface 213 Lecture I. 217 Lecture II. 248 Addenda to Lectures I. and II. 270 Lecture III. Turner and his Works 287 Lecture IV. Pre-Raphae...
21. PART I.PAGE THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART 7 Lecture I. 11 1. Discovery 23 2. Application 28 Lecture II. 46 3. Accumulation 46 4. Distribution 65 Addenda 86 Note 1.—"Fatherly Authority"...
22. PART II.23. PART III.PAGE ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY[A] I.—Maintenance of Life: Wealth, Money and Riches 207 Section 1. Wealth 214 " 2. Money 219 " 3. Riches 222 II.—Nature of Wealth, Variations of...
24. VOLUME I. LETTERS ON ART AND SCIENCECONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE Author's Preface ix Editor's Preface xviii Chronological List of the Letters in Volume I xviii Letters on Art: I. Art Criticism and Art Education. "Mo...
25. VOLUME II. LETTERS ON POLITICS, ECONOMY,CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. PAGE Chronological List of the Letters contained in Vol. II. x Letters on Politics and War: The Italian Question. 1859. Three letters: June 6 3 June 15 8...
26. PART I.27. Chapter I., Introductory§ 1. Public opinion no criterion of excellence, except after long periods of time. 1 § 2. And therefore obstinate when once formed. 4 § 3. The author's reasons for opposing it i...
28. Chapter II., Definition of Greatness in Art§ 1. Distinction between the painter's intellectual power and technical knowledge. 8 § 2. Painting, as such, is nothing more than language. 8 § 3. "Painter," a term correspondin...
29. Chapter III.Of Ideas of Power§ 1. What classes of ideas are conveyable by art. 13 § 2. Ideas of power vary much in relative dignity. 13 § 3. But are received from whatever has been the subject of power. The...
30. Chapter IV. Of Ideas of Imitation§ 1. False use of the term "imitation" by many writers on art. 17 § 2. Real meaning of the term. 18 § 3. What is requisite to the sense of imitation. 18 § 4. The pleasure result...
31. Chapter V., Of Ideas of Truth§ 1. Meaning of the word "truth" as applied to art. 21 § 2. First difference between truth and imitation. 21 § 3. Second difference. 21 § 4. Third difference. 22 § 5. No accurat...
32. Chapter VI., Of Ideas of Beauty§ 1. Definition of the term "beautiful." 26 § 2. Definition of the term "taste." 26 § 3. Distinction between taste and judgment. 27 § 4. How far beauty may become intellectual....
33. Chapter VII., Of Ideas of Relation§ 1. General meaning of the term. 29 § 2. ideas are to be comprehended under it. 29 § 3. The exceeding nobility of these ideas. 30 § 4. Why no subdivision of so extensive a clas...
34. Chapter I., General Principles respecting Ideas of Power§ 1. No necessity for detailed study of ideas of imitation. 32 § 2. Nor for separate study of ideas of power. 32 § 3. Except under one particular form. 33 § 4. There are two mod...
35. Chapter II., Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution§ 1. Meaning of the term "execution." 36 § 2. The first quality of execution is truth. 36 § 3. The second, simplicity. 36 § 4. The third, mystery. 37 § 5. The fourth, inadequacy...
36. Chapter III., Of the Sublime§ 1. Sublimity is the effect upon the mind of anything above it. 41 § 2. Burke's theory of the nature of the sublime incorrect, and why. 41 § 3. Danger is sublime, but not the f...
37. Chapter I., Of Ideas of Truth in their connection with those of Beauty and Relation§ 1. The two great ends of landscape painting are the representation of facts and thoughts. 44 § 2. They induce a different choice of material subjects.[Page lvi] 45 § 3. The fi...
38. Chapter II., That the Truth of Nature is not to be discerned by the Uneducated Senses§ 1. The common self-deception of men with respect to their power of discerning truth. 50 § 2. Men usually see little of what is before their eyes. 51 § 3. But more or less in p...
39. Chapter III., Of the Relative Importance of Truths:—First, that Particular Truths are more important than General Ones.§ 1. Necessity of determining the relative importance of truths. 58 § 2. Misapplication of the aphorism: "General truths are more important than particular ones." 58 § 3. Falsen...
40. Chapter IV., Of the Relative Importance of Truths:—Secondly, that Rare Truths are more important than Frequent Ones§ 1. No accidental violation of nature's principles should be represented. 64 § 2. But the cases in which those principles have been strikingly exemplified. 65 § 3. Which are co...
41. Chapter V., Of the Relative Importance of Truths:—Thirdly, that Truths of Color are the least important of all Truths§ 1. Difference between primary and secondary qualities in bodies. 67 § 2. The first are fully characteristic, the second imperfectly so. 67 § 3. Color is a secondary quality, t...
42. Chapter VI. Recapitulation§ 1. The importance of historical truths. 72 § 2. Form, as explained by light and shade, the first of all truths. Tone, light, and color, are secondary. 72 § 3. And deceptive ch...
43. Chapter VII., General Application of the Foregoing Principle§ 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 the...
44. Chapter I., Of Truth of Tone§ 1. Meanings of the word "tone:"—First, the right relation of objects in shadow to the principal light. 140 § 2. Secondly, the quality of color by which it is felt to owe part...
45. Chapter II., Of Truth of Color§ 1. Observations on the color of G. Poussin's La Riccia. 155 § 2. As compared with the actual scene. 155 § 3. Turner himself is inferior in brilliancy to nature. 157 § 4. Impos...
46. Chapter III., Of Truth of Chiaroscuro§ 1. We are not at present to examine particular effects of light. 174 § 2. And therefore the distinctness of shadows is the chief means of expressing vividness of light. 175 §...
47. Chapter IV., Of Truth of Space:—First, as Dependent on the Focus of the Eye§ 1. Space is more clearly indicated by the drawing of objects than by their hue. 185 § 2. It is impossible to see objects at unequal distances distinctly at one moment. 186 § 3...
48. Chapter V., Of Truth of Space:—Secondly, as its Appearance is dependent on the Power of the Eye§ 1. The peculiar indistinctness dependent on the retirement of objects from the eye. 191 § 2. Causes confusion, but not annihilation of details. 191 § 3. Instances in various o...
49. Chapter I., Of the Open Sky.§ 1. The peculiar adaptation of the sky to the pleasing and teaching of man. 204 § 2. The carelessness with which its lessons are received. 205 § 3. The most essential of these...
50. Chapter II., Of Truth of Clouds:—First, of the Region of the Cirrus.§ 1. Difficulty of ascertaining wherein the truth of clouds consists. 216 § 2. Variation of their character at different elevations. The three regions to which they may convenie...
51. Chapter III., Of Truth of Clouds:—Secondly, of the Central Cloud Region§ 1. Extent and typical character of the central cloud region. 226 § 2. Its characteristic clouds, requiring no attention nor thought for their representation, are therefore fav...
52. Chapter IV.,Of Truth of Clouds:—Thirdly, of the Region of the Rain-Cloud.§ 1. The apparent difference in character between the lower and central clouds is dependent chiefly on proximity. 244 § 2. Their marked differences in color. 244 § 3. And in def...
53. Chapter V., Effects of Light rendered by Modern Art.§ 1. Reasons for merely, at present, naming, without examining the particular effects of light rendered by Turner. 266 § 2. Hopes of the author for assistance in the future inve...
54. Chapter I., Of General Structure§ 1. First laws of the organization of the earth, and their importance in art. 270 § 2. The slight attention ordinarily paid to them. Their careful study by modern artists. 271...
55. Chapter II., Of the Central Mountains§ 1. Similar character of the central peaks in all parts of the world. 275 § 2. Their arrangements in pyramids or wedges, divided by vertical fissures. 275 § 3. Causing groups o...
56. Chapter III., Of the Inferior Mountains§ 1. The inferior mountains are distinguished from the central, by being divided into beds. 290 § 2. Farther division of these beds by joints. 290 § 3. And by lines of laminatio...
57. Chapter IV., Of the Foreground§ 1. What rocks were the chief components of ancient landscape foreground. 309 § 2. Salvator's limestones. The real characters of the rock. Its fractures, and obtuseness of angl...
58. Chapter I., Of Water, as Painted by the Ancients§ 1. Sketch of the functions and infinite agency of water. 325 § 2. The ease with which a common representation of it may be given. The impossibility of a faithful one. 325 § 3....
59. Chapter II., Of Water, as Painted by the Moderns§ 1. General power of the moderns in painting quiet water. The lakes of Fielding. 348 § 2. The calm rivers of De Wint, J. Holland, &c. 348 § 3. The character of bright and viole...
60. Chapter III., Of Water, as Painted by Turner§ 1. The difficulty of giving surface to smooth water. 355 § 2. Is dependent on the structure of the eye, and the focus by which the reflected rays are perceived. 355 § 3. Morbi...
61. Chapter I., Of Truth of Vegetation§ 1. Frequent occurrence of foliage in the works of the old masters. 384 § 2. Laws common to all forest trees. Their branches do not taper, but only divide. 385 § 3. Appearance...
62. Chapter II., General remarks respecting the Truth of Turner§ 1. No necessity of entering into discussion of architectural truth. 409 § 2. Extreme difficulty of illustrating or explaining the highest truth. 410 § 3. The positive rank of...
63. Chapter III., Conclusion.-Modern Art and Modern Criticism§ 1. The entire prominence hitherto given to the works of one artist caused only by our not being able to take cognizance of character. 414 § 2. The feelings of different artist...
64. VOLUME II.65. PART III.66. Chapter I.-Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty.page § 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1 § 2. And of what importance considered. 2 § 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility". 3 § 4. Its proper sense. 4 §...
67. Chapter II.-Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with Pleasures of Sense.§ 1. Explanation of the term "theoretic". 12 § 2. Of the differences of rank in pleasures of sense. 12 § 3. Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate. 13 § 4. Right use of the...
68. Chapter III.-Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions of Sense.§ 1. By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined? 19 § 2. And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be attached to its conclusions? 20 § 3. What...
69. Chapter IV.-Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty.§ 1. Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa. 30 § 2. Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare Chap. xii. § 5. 31 § 3. Of the false opinion that...
70. Chapter V.-Of Typical Beauty:-First, of Infinity, or the Type of Divine Incomprehensibility.§ 1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject. 38 § 2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached. 38 § 3. The child instinct respecting space. 39 § 4. Continued i...
71. Chapter VI.-Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Comprehensiveness.§ 1. The general conception of divine Unity. 50 § 2. The glory of all things is their Unity. 50 § 3. The several kinds of unity. Subjectional. Original. Of sequence, and of memb...
72. Chapter VII.-Of Repose, or the Type of Divine Permanence.§ 1. Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art. Its sources. 65 § 2. Repose how expressed in matter. 66 § 3. The necessity to repose of an implied energy. 66 §...
73. Chapter VIII.-Of Symmetry, or the Type of Divine Justice.§ 1. Symmetry, what and how found in organic nature. 72 § 2. How necessary in art. 72 § 3. To what its agreeableness is referable. Various instances. 73 § 4. Especially in relig...
74. Chapter IX.-Of Purity, or the Type of Divine Energy.§ 1. The influence of light as a sacred symbol. 75 § 2. The idea of purity connected with it. 75 § 3. Originally derived from conditions of matter. 76 § 4. Associated ideas addi...
75. Chapter X.-Of Moderation, or the Type of Government by Law.§ 1. Meaning of the terms Chasteness and Refinement. 81 § 2. How referable to temporary fashions. 81 § 3. How to the perception of completion. 81 § 4. Finish, by great masters e...
76. Chapter XI.-General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty.§ 1. The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general conclusions. 86 § 2. Typical beauty not created for man's sake. 87 § 3. But degrees of it for his sake admitted....
77. Chapter XII.-Of Vital Beauty:-First, as Relative.§ 1. Transition from typical to vital Beauty. 89 § 2. The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with vital beauty, is charity. 90 § 3. Only with respect to plants, le...
78. Chapter XIII.-Of Vital Beauty:-Secondly, as Generic.§ 1. The beauty of fulfilment of appointed function in every animal. 101 § 2. The two senses of the word "ideal." Either it refers to action of the imagination. 102 § 3. Or to p...
79. Chapter XIV.-Of Vital Beauty:-Thirdly, in Man.§ 1. Condition of the human creature entirely different from that of the lower animals. 111 § 2. What room here for idealization. 111 § 3. How the conception of the bodily ideal...
80. Chapter XV.-General Conclusions respecting the Theoretic Faculty.§ 1. There are no sources of the emotion of beauty more than those found in things visible. 133 § 2. What imperfection exists in visible things. How in a sort by imagination rem...
81. Chapter I.-Of the Three Forms of Imagination.§ 1. A partial examination only of the imagination is to be attempted. 142 § 2. The works of the metaphysicians how nugatory with respect to this faculty. 143 § 3. The definitio...
82. Chapter II.-Of Imagination Associative.§ 1. Of simple conception. 147 § 2. How connected with verbal knowledge. 148 § 3. How used in composition. 148 § 4. Characteristics of composition. 149 § 5. What powers are impl...
83. Chapter III.-Of Imagination Penetrative.§ 1. Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining but apprehending of things. 163 § 2. Milton's and Dante's description of flame. 163 § 3. The imagination seizes...
84. Chapter IV.-Of Imagination Contemplative.§ 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence, but only a habit or mode of the faculty. 192 § 2. The ambiguity of conception. 192 § 3. Is not in itself capable of ad...
85. Chapter V.-Of the Superhuman Ideal.§ 1. The subject is not to be here treated in detail. 212 § 2. The conceivable modes of manifestation of Spiritual Beings are four. 212 § 3. And these are in or through creature...
86. Chapter I.— Of the received Opinions touching the "Grand Style" 1" II.— Of Realization 16 " III.— Of the Real Nature of Greatness of Style 23 " IV.— Of the False Ideal:—First, Religious 44 " V.— Of the False Ideal:—Secondly, Profane 61 " VI.—...
87. Chapter I.— Of the Turnerian Picturesque 1" II.— Of Turnerian Topography 16 " III.— Of Turnerian Light 34 " IV.— Of Turnerian Mystery: First, as Essential 56 " V.— Of Turnerian Mystery: Secondly, Wilful 68 " VI.— The Fi...
88. VOLUME V., COMPLETING THE WORK AND CONTAINING:89. Chapter I. —The Earth-Veil 1” II. —The Leaf Orders 6 ” III. —The Bud 10 ” IV. —The Leaf 21 ” V. —Leaf Aspects 34 ” VI. —The Branch 39 ” VII. —The Stem 49 ” VIII. —The Leaf Monuments 63 ” IX. —The Leaf Shad...
90. Chapter I. —The Cloud Balancings 10191. Chapter I. —The Law of Help 15392. Chapter I. —The Dark Mirror 193” II. —The Lance of Pallas 202 ” III. —The Wings of the Lion 214 ” IV. —Durer and Salvator 230 ” V. —Claude and Poussin 241 ” VI. —Rubens and Cuyp 249 ” VII. —Of Vulgarity 261 ”...