Modern Painters: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

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Smith, Elder, and Company, 1848

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Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with Pleasures of Sense 1 Explanation of the term theoretic
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Use of the terms temperate and intemperate
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Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of intemperance
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Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing
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Ideas of beauty how essentially moral
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How degraded by heartless reception
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Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions of Sense 1 By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined?
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And in what sense may the terms right and wrong be attached to its conclusions ?
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Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty
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Infinity how necessary in
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The love of change How morbid and evil
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Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art Its sources
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Of Symmetry or the Type of Divine Justice
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General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty
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Of Vital Beauty First as Relative
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The second perfection of the Theoretic faculty as concerned with life
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Instance in the Soldanella and Ranunculus
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The beauty of repose and felicity how consistent with such Ideal
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The ideality of Art
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CHAPTER XIVOf Vital Beauty Thirdly in Man 1 Condition of the human creature entirely different from that of the lower animals
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How the conception of the bodily ideal is reached
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Modifications of the bodily ideal owing to influence of mind First of Intellect
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What beauty is bestowed by them
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How the soul culture interferes harmfully with the bodily ideal
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Is a sign of Gods kind purpose towards the race
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Consequent Separation and difference of Ideals
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The effects of the Adamite curse are to be distinguished from signs of its immediate activity
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But never either creates or destroys the essence of Beauty
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Evil results of opposite practice in modern times
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Ideal form to be reached only by Love
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Portraiture ancient and modern
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Secondly Sensuality
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And prevented by its splendour
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And Modern Art
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Holy Fear how distinct from human Terror
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Of passion generally
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General Conclusions respecting the Theoretic Faculty 1 There are no sources of the emotion of beauty more than those found in things visible
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What imperfection exists in visible things How in a sort by imagination removeable
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What objections may be made to this conclusion
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How interrupted by false feeling
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Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and spoken in and through Evil men
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The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian men to ex ternal beauty
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Reasons for this coldness in the anxieties of the world These anxieties overwrought and criminal
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Theoria the Service of Heaven
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SECTION II
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The works of the Metaphysicians how nugatory with respect to this faculty
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This instance nugatory
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Various instances
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The three operations of the Imagination Penetrative Associative Con templative
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Of Imagination Associative 1 Of simple conception
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How connected with Verbal knowledge
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Characteristics of Composition
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What powers are implied by it The First of the Three Functions of Fancy
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Imagination associative is the corelative conception of imperfect com ponent parts
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The due function of Associative imagination with respect to nature
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The sign of imaginative work is its appearance of absolute truth
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Of Imagination Penetrative 1 Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining but appre hending of things
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The imagination seizes always by the innermost point
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It acts intuitively and without reasoning
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Absence of imagination how shown
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Fancy how involved with Imagination
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Fancy is never serious
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Fancy restless
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And suggestive of the Imagination
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15 Imagination addresses itself to Imagination
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The Annunciation
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The Baptism of Christ Its treatment by various painters
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By Tintoret
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The Crucifixion
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The Massacre of Innocents
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Various works in the Scuola di San Rocco
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The Last Judgment How treated by various painters
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The imaginative verity how distinguished from realism
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The imagination how manifested in sculpture
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Bandinelli Canova Mino da Fiesole
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VOL II
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Recapitulation The perfect function of the Imagination is the intuitive perception of Ultimate Truth
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Imagination how vulgarly understood
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Of Imagination Contemplative 1 Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence but only a habit or mode of the faculty
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Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things
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But gives to the Imagination its regardant power over them
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The third office of Fancy distinguished from imagination contemplative
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Various instances
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Morbid or Nervous Fancy
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Except under narrow limits 1st Abstract rendering of form without colour
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Or of both without texture
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Abstraction or typical representation of animal form
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Or in architectural decoration
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Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament
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Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not imaginative
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Exaggeration Its laws and limits First in scale of representation
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Secondly Of things capable of variety of scale
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Thirdly necessary in expression of characteristic features on diminished scale
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Of the Superhuman Ideal 1 The subject is not to be here treated in detail
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And these are in or through creature forms familiar to us
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1st Of the expression of Inspiration
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No representation of that which is more than creature is possible
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Supernatural character expressed by modification of accessaries
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Landscape of Benozzo Gozzoli
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Such Landscape is not to be imitated
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Colour And Decoration Their use in representations of the Super natural
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And Colour pure
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Anatomical development how far admissible
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19 The influence of Greek art how dangerous
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Conclusion
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ADDENDA
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Side 129 - And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said...
Side 86 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Side 34 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Side 124 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh!
Side 136 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Side 136 - So spake the grisly terror, and in shape, So speaking: and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Side 37 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised...
Side 166 - ... of its supporting column. This, I think, sufficiently explains the typical character of the whole. The ruined house is the Jewish dispensation ; that obscurely arising in the dawning of the sky is the Christian ; but the corner-stone of the old building remains, though the builder's tools lie idle beside it, and the stone which the builders refused is become the Headstone of the Corner.
Side 4 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time : also he hath set the world in their heart; so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Side 124 - That light proceeds, which kindleth lovers' fire, Shall never be extinguished nor decay; But, when the vital spirits do expire, Unto her native planet shall retire; For it is heavenly born and cannot die, Being a parcel of the purest sky.

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