CHAPTER V

.--Of Truth of Space:--Secondly, as its Appearance is

dependent on the Power of the Eye.

Sec. 1. The peculiar indistinctness dependent on the retirement of objects from the eye. 191 Sec. 2. Causes confusion, but not annihilation of details. 191 Sec. 3. Instances in various objects. 192 Sec. 4. Two great resultant truths; that nature is never distinct, and never vacant. 193 Sec. 5. Complete violation of both these principles by the old masters. They are either distinct or vacant. 193 Sec. 6. Instances from Nicholas Poussin. 194 Sec. 7. From Claude. 194 Sec. 8. And G. Poussin. 195 Sec. 9. The imperative necessity, in landscape painting, of fulness and finish. 196 Sec. 10. Breadth is not vacancy. 197 Sec. 11. The fulness and mystery of Turner's distances. 198 Sec. 12. Farther illustrations in architectural drawing. 199 Sec. 13. In near objects as well as distances. 199 Sec. 14. Vacancy and falsehood of Canaletto. 200 Sec. 15. Still greater fulness and finish in landscape foregrounds. 200 Sec. 16. Space and size are destroyed alike by distinctness and by vacancy. 202 Sec. 17. Swift execution best secures perfection of details. 202 Sec. 18. Finish is far more necessary in landscape than in historical subjects. 202 Sec. 19. Recapitulation of the section. 203

SECTION III.

OF TRUTH OF SKIES.

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