Niggling, ugly misused term, v. [36]; means disorganized and mechanical work, v. [37].
Obedience, equivalent of, “faith,” and root of all human deed, v. [161]; highest form of, v. [161], [163]; law of, v. [161].
Obscurity, law of, iv. 61; of intelligible and unintelligible painters, iv. 74. See Mystery.
Ornament, abstract, as used by Angelico, ii. 220; realized, as used by Filippino Lippi, etc., ii. 220; language of, distinct from language of expression, i. 10; use of animal form in, ii. 204; architectural, i. 105, 107, ii. 205; symbolic, ii. 204-205; vulgar, iv. 273; in dress, iv. 364; curvature in, iv. 273, 274; typical, iii. 206; symmetrical, iii. 207; in backgrounds, iii. 203; floral, iii. 207-208.
Outline exists only conventionally in nature, iii. 114.
Painters, classed by their objects, 1st, exhibition of truth, 2nd, deception of senses, i. 74; classed as colorists and chiaroscurists, iv. 47; functions of, iii. 25; great, characteristics of, i. 8, 124, 326, ii. 42, iii. 26-43, iv. 38, v. [189], [190], [332]; great, treatment of pictures by, v. [189]; valgar, characteristics of, i. 327, ii. 82, 128, 137, iii. 32, 63, 175, 257, 318; religious, ii. 174, 175, 181, 217, iii. 48, 59, iv. 355; complete use of space by, i. 235; duty of, with regard to choice of subject, ii. 219, iv. 18 (note); interpreters of nature, iii. 139; modern philosophical, error respecting color of, iii. 30; imaginative and unimaginative, ii. 154-157; should be guides of the imagination, iii. 132; sketches of, v. [180]; early Italian, i. 247, iii. 244; Dutch, i. xxxii. preface, iii. 182; v. [35], [37], [278]; Venetian, i. 80, 346, v. [214], [229], [258]; value of personification to, iii. 96; contrast between northern and Italian, in drawing of clouds, v. [133]; effect of the Reformation on, v. [250]. See Art, Artists.
Painting, a language, i. 8; opposed to speaking and writing, not to poetry, iii. 13; classification of, iii. 12; sacred, iii. 46; historical, iii. 39, 90; allegorical, delight of greatest men, iii. 95; of stone, iv. 301; kind of conception necessary to, v. [187]; success, how found in, v. [179]; of the body, v. [228]; differs from illumination in representing shadow, iii. 29; mode of, subordinate to purpose, v. [187]; distinctively the art of coloring, v. [316]; perfect, indistinctness necessary to, iv. 64; great, expressive of nobleness of mind, v. [178], [191]. See Landscape Painting, Animal Painting, Art, Artist, Truth, Mediæval, Renaissance.
Past and present, sadly sundered, iv. 4.
Peace, v. [339]-353; of monasticism, v. [282]; choice between the labor of death and the peace of obedience, v. [353].
Perfectness, law of, v. [180]-192.