[277] Diess Verwachsenseyn. Lit., this growing up with.
[278] There is, however, the aspect of consummate execution which in itself is a very real source of artistic enjoyment, and Hegel rather seems to overlook this here.
[279] Verzweigungen. All off-shoots of attention or interest.
[280] Of course, even in the painting of still life, artistic composition itself implies by its selection and subordination to an idea a new result. And the characteristic technique of a painter inevitably has the same result.
[281] Geistigen Ausdrück.
[282] Grundlage.
[283] It is perhaps rather strange that Hegel should have considered the Dutch and Flemish schools as pre-eminently colourists. Apart from Rembrandt the truth is not very apparent. But he was mainly thinking of their dexterity in the lighting of a picture and the scintillation of colour.
[284] That is, as black and white and its gradations.
[285] It is not quite clear what is intended here by Vervielfältigung, probably power of being adapted to various subject matter and modes of expression.
[286] It is hardly necessary to point out that this discussion, being based on Goethe's false theory of colour in opposition to Newton's prismatic analysis, has no scientific value, though historically of interest. The blueness of the sky is due to the blue rays being detained.