Various causes have concurred to prevent its earlier appearance in print. In the interval we have had the simultaneous notice of Mr. Ruskin's more recent work in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. Those able articles involved much of the personal criticism I have been anxious to avoid; but they have confirmed, so far as they have gone, my own convictions. In other respects they have no way affected what is now submitted to the Reader's candour.

Leny, Clifton Park,

November, 1856.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.-The Case opened.- The Exhibition.- The

Books.-Precise Nature of the proposed Inquiry

Fage

1

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART.

CHAP. II. - The Turner Controversy.- The " Pharisees" 14

CHAP. III. — Turner Controversy, continued. -"Truth of

Tone"

21

CHAP. IV. -Turner Controversy, continued.

Chiaroscuro "

"Truth of

30

"Truth

CHAP. V. — Turner Controversy, continued.

of Space." - Defence of Turner's Foreground Figures,

with Casualties. —- Background of ancient Masters

CHAP. VI. — Turner Controversy, continued.—“ Truth of

Clouds." "Truth of Earth." "Truth of Vegeta-

tion."-Turner "the Prophet"

CHAP. VII. Turner Controversy, continued.

and Art

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Science

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Page

Solem-

58

CHAP. VIII. — Turner Controversy, continued.

nities of ancient Art.-Turner's historical Landscapes

CHAP. IX.- Turner Controversy, continued.-Turner's

Views. - The Author's View of Turner. How far he

has attempted the Philosophy of Art

65

THE POETRY OF ART.

CHAP. X.-What is Poetry?

CHAP. XI. — What is Imagination?

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CHAP. XII.— The Pre-Raffaellite View of Imagination - 102

CHAP. XIII.-The Human Ideal.- Pre-Raffaellite View 110

CHAP. XIV.-Truth and Beauty. Historical Painting.
Giotto and "Plain Facts."-A Cartoon of Raffaelle

with modern Paraphrase. "The Grand School.".

Appeal to Facts.- History reduced to Portrait.-The

Duke at Waterloo

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123

THE RELIGION OF ART.

CHAP. XV. — Is "All Mediæval Art a Confession, and

all Modern a Denial, of Christ?"

CHAP. XVI.-The Religious and the Artistic Elements.-

Religious Pictures. Raffaelle and Pre-Raffaelle.

The Cartoon of "The Miraculous Draught.”—Raffaelle

in the Vatican. The Cartoon of Christ's Charge to

Peter."The Scape-goat"

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CHAP. XXI.-Do we want a Revolution ?-The "effete"

Hypothesis. Our real Want with respect to Art

CHAP. XXII.-Architectural Radicalism. -Alleged Na-

ture of Architecture. Comparative Anatomy

CHAP. XXIII.-Architectural Morals.-"An honest Ar-

chitecture "—in the light of Consequences

CHAP. XXIV - Architectural Morals, continued.

honest Architecture "— in the light of Principles

CHAP. XXV. — Architectural Polity

-"An

CHAP. XXVI.

Wordsworth

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Collateral Evidence.

Carlyle and

298

CHAP. XXVII.-Conclusion.-Vindication of the Course

of Inquiry. Personal Criticism how far unavoidable.

Self-contradiction fatal to asserted Authority.-In-

stances. The only Consistency.-Consequences of its

Success

300