323
Sec. 29. The unison of all in the ideal foregrounds of the Academy
pictures. 324
Sec. 30. And the great lesson to be received from all. 324

SECTION V.

OF TRUTH OF WATER.

CHAPTER I.--Of Water, as Painted by the Ancients.

Sec. 1. Sketch of the functions and infinite agency of water. 325
Sec. 2. The ease with which a common representation of it may be
given. The impossibility of a faithful one. 325
Sec. 3. Difficulty of properly dividing the subject. 326
Sec. 4. Inaccuracy of study of water-effect among all painters. 326
Sec. 5. Difficulty of treating this part of the subject. 328
Sec. 6. General laws which regulate the phenomena of water. First, The
imperfection of its reflective surface. 329
Sec. 7. The inherent hue of water modifies dark reflections, and does
not affect right ones. 330
Sec. 8. Water takes no shadow. 331
Sec. 9. Modification of dark reflections by shadow. 332
Sec. 10. Examples on the waters of the Rhone. 333
Sec. 11. Effect of ripple on distant water. 335
Sec. 12. Elongation of reflections by moving water. 335
Sec. 13. Effect of rippled water on horizontal and inclined images. 336
Sec. 14. To what extent reflection is visible from above. 336
Sec. 15. Deflection of images on agitated water. 337
Sec. 16. Necessity of watchfulness as well as of science. Licenses, how
taken by great men. 337
Sec. 17. Various licenses or errors in water painting of Claude, Cuyp,
Vandevelde. 339
Sec. 18. And Canaletto. 341
Sec. 19. Why unpardonable. 342
Sec. 20. The Dutch painters of sea. 343
Sec. 21. Ruysdael, Claude, and Salvator. 344
Sec. 22. Nicolo Poussin.