Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
Chapter 1 —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 corresponding to "versifier." 9
§ 4. Example in a painting of E. Landseer's. 9
§ 5. Difficulty of fixing an exact limit between language and thought. 9
§ 6. Distinction between decorative and expressive language. 10
§ 7. Instance in the Dutch and early Italian schools. 10
§ 8. Yet there are certain ideas belonging to language itself. 11
§ 9. The definition. 12
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Chapter 1 —Definition of Greatness in Art.
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Chapter 2 —General Principles respecting Ideas of Power.
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Chapter 3 —Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution.
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Chapter 4 —Of Ideas of Truth in their connection with those of Beauty and Relation.
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Chapter 5 —That the Truth of Nature is not to be discerned by the Uneducated Senses.
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Chapter 6 —Of the Relative Importance of Truths —First, that Particular Truths are more important than General Ones.
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Chapter 7 —Of the Relative Importance of Truths —Secondly, that Rare Truths are more important than Frequent Ones.
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Chapter 8 —Of the Relative Importance of Truths —Thirdly, that Truths of Color are the least important of all Truths.
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Chapter 9 —Recapitulation.
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Chapter 10 —Of Truth of Tone.
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Chapter 11 —Of Truth of Color.
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Chapter 12 —Of Truth of Chiaroscuro.
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Chapter 13 —Of Truth of Space —First, as Dependent on the Focus of the Eye.
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Chapter 14 —Of the Open Sky.
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Chapter 15 —Of Truth of Clouds —First, of the Region of the Cirrus.
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Chapter 16 —Of Truth of Clouds —Secondly, of the Central Cloud Region.
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Chapter 17 —Of Truth of Clouds —Thirdly, of the Region of the Rain-Cloud.
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Chapter 18 —Of General Structure.
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Chapter 19 —Of the Central Mountains.
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Chapter 20 —Of the Inferior Mountains.
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