Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5)

by John Ruskin

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART IV.

OF MANY THINGS.

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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.—	[Of the True Ideal:—First, Purist]	70
"	VII.—	[Of the True Ideal:—Secondly, Naturalist]	77
"	VIII.—	[Of the True Ideal:—Thirdly, Grotesque]	92
"	IX.—	[Of Finish]	108
"	X.—	[Of the Use of Pictures]	124
"	XI.—	[Of the Novelty of Landscape]	144
"	XII.—	[Of the Pathetic Fallacy]	152
"	XIII.—	[Of Classical Landscape]	168
"	XIV.—	[Of Mediæval Landscape:—First, the Fields]	191
"	XV.—	[Of Mediæval Landscape:—Secondly, the Rocks]	229
"	XVI.—	[Of Modern Landscape]	248
"	XVII.—	[The Moral of Landscape]	280
"	XVIII.—	[Of the Teachers of Turner]	308
APPENDIX.
	I.—	[Claude's Tree-drawing]	333
	II.—	[German Philosophy]	336
	III.—	[Plagiarism]	338

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LIST OF PLATES TO VOL. III.

		Drawn by	Engraved by
[Frontispiece. Lake, Land, and Cloud.]		The Author	J. C. Armytage.
Plate			Facing page
1.	[True and False Griffins]	The Author	R. P. Cuff	106
2.	[Drawing of Tree-bark]	Various	J. H. Le Keux	114
3.	[Strength of old Pine]	The Author	J. H. Le Keux	116
4.	[Ramification according to Claude]	Claude	J. H. Le Keux	117
5.	[Good and Bad Tree-drawing]	Turner and Constable	J. Cousen	118
6.	[Foreground Leafage]	The Author	J. C. Armytage	121
7.	[Botany of the Thirteenth Century]	Missal-Painters	Henry Shaw	203
8.	[The Growth of Leaves]	The Author	R. P. Cuff	204
9.	[Botany of the Fourteenth Century]	Missal-Painters	Cuff; H. Swan	207
10.	[Geology of the Middle Ages]	Leonardo, etc.	R. P. Cuff	238
11.	[Latest Purism]	Raphael	J. C. Armytage	313
12.	[The Shores of Wharfe]	J. W. M. Turner	The Author	314
13.	[First Mountain-Naturalism]	Masaccio	J. H. Le Keux	315
14.	[The Lombard Apennine]	The Author	Thos. Lupton	315
15.	[St. George of the Seaweed]	The Author	Thos. Lupton	315
16.	[Early Naturalism]	Titian	J. C. Armytage	316
17.	[Advanced Naturalism]	Tintoret	J. C. Armytage	316

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PREFACE.

As this preface is nearly all about myself, no one need take the trouble of reading it, unless he happens to be desirous of knowing—what I, at least, am bound to state,—the circumstances which have caused the long delay of the work, as well as the alterations which will be noticed in its form.