Flowers, mediæval love of, iii. 193; mountain variety of, iv. 347; typical of the passing and the excellence of human life, iii. 227; sympathy with, ii. 91, v. [88]; no sublimity in, v. [91]; alpine, v. [93]; neglected by the great painters, v. 89; two chief peculiarities, v. [92], [93]; beauty of, on what depending, v. [97] (note).
Foam, two conditions of, i. 373; difficulty of representing, i, 373; appearance of, at Schaffhausen, i. 349; sea, how different from the “yeast” of a tempest, i. 380 (note).
Foliage, an element of mountain glory, iv. 348; unity, variety, and regularity of, 394, 398; as painted on the Continent, i. 401; and by Pre-Raphaelites, i. 397; study of, by old masters, i. 384.
Forbes, Professor, description of mountains, quoted, iv. 182, 235.
Foreground, finer truths of, the peculiar business of a master, i. 315; lesson to be received from all, i. 323; mountain attractiveness of, i. 99; of ancient masters, i. 308, 313; increased loveliness of, when wet, iv. 245; Turner’s, i. 323, 324; must sometimes be sacrificed to distance, i. 187.
Form, chiaroscuro necessary to the perception of, i. 69, 70; more important than color, i. 68-71, ii. 77, iv. 54, v. [318] (note); multiplicity of, in mountains, i. 280; animal, typical representation of, ii. 203, 204; without color, ii. 201; without texture, Veronese and Landseer, ii. 202; natural curvature of, ii. 60, 61; animal beauty of, depends on moral expression, ii. 98; what necessary to the sense of beauty in organic, ii. 94, 95; ideal, ii. 104, iii. 78; animal and vegetable, ii. 105; ideal, destroyed by pride, sensuality, etc., ii. 122, 123; rendering of, by photography, iv. 63; mountain, iv. 135, 139, 159-262; natural, variety of, inconceivable, iv. 189; of aiguilles, how produced, iv. 189; beauty of, dependent upon curvature, ii. 46.
French art culminated in 13th century, iv. 358.
Fuseli, quotations from, i. 16, ii. 153, 171.
Genius, unrecognized at the time, i. 6; not the result of education, iii. 42; power of, to teach, i. 414.
Gentility, an English idea, iv. 4.