Exact Imitation not the end of Art—Illustrations derived from Casting, Photography, and Stenography—Comparison between Denner and Van Dyck—Certain Arts purposely Inexact—Comparison between Antique Statues and Draped Figures in the Churches of Naples and Spain—Comparison between Prose and Verse—The Two Iphigenias of Goethe
Relationships of Parts the true object of Imitation—Illustrations derived from Drawing and Literature.
A Work of Art not confined to Imitating Relationships of Parts—Modification of the Principle in the greatest Schools; Michael Angelo, Rubens—The Medici Tomb—The 'Kermesse.'
Definition of Essential Character: Examples of the Lion and the Netherlands.
Importance of Essential Character; Nature imperfectly expressing it, Art supplies her place—Flanders in the time of Rubens, and Italy in the time of Raphael.
Artistic Imagination—Spontaneous Impressions, and their power of Transformation.
Retrospect; successive steps of the Method, and Definition of a Work of Art.