f 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.

CHAPTER I.--Of the Open Sky.

Sec. 1. The peculiar adaptation of the sky to the pleasing and
teaching of man. 204
Sec. 2. The carelessness with which its lessons are received. 205
Sec. 3. The most essential of these lessons are the gentlest. 205
Sec. 4. Many of our ideas of sky altogether