Sec. 1. Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining
but apprehending of things. 163
Sec. 2. Milton's and Dante's description of flame. 163
Sec. 3. The imagination seizes always by the innermost point. 164
Sec. 4. It acts intuitively and without reasoning. 165
Sec. 5. Signs of it in language. 165
Sec. 6. Absence of imagination, how shown. 166
Sec. 7. Distinction between imagination and fancy. 166
Sec. 8. Fancy how involved with imagination. 168
Sec. 9. Fancy is never serious. 169
Sec. 10. Want of seriousness the bar to high art at the present time. 169
Sec. 11. Imagination is quiet; fancy, restless. 170
Sec. 12. The detailing operation of fancy. 170
Sec. 13. And suggestive, of the imagination. 171
Sec. 14. This suggestiveness how opposed to vacancy. 172
Sec. 15. Imagination addresses itself to imagination. 173
Instances from the works of Tintoret. 173
Sec. 16. The entombment. 174
Sec. 17. The Annunciation. 174
Sec. 18. The Baptism of Christ. Its treatment by various painters. 176
Sec. 19. By Tintoret. 177
Sec. 20. The Crucifixion. 178
Sec. 21. The Massacre of innocents. 179
Sec. 22. Various works in the Scuola di San Rocco. 181
Sec. 23. The Last Judgment. How treated by various painters. 181
Sec. 24. By Tintoret. 182
Sec. 25. The imaginative verity, how distinguished from realism. 183
Sec. 26. The imagination how manifested in sculpture. 184
Sec. 27. Bandinelli, Canova, Mino da Fiesole. 184
Sec. 28. Michael Angelo. 185
Sec. 29. Recapitulation. The perfect function of the imagination is
the intuitive perception of ultimate truth. 188
Sec. 30. Imagination how vulgarly understood. 190
Sec. 31. How its cultivation is dependent on the moral feelings. 190
Sec. 32. On independence of mind. 191
Sec. 33. And on habitual reference to nature. 191
CHAPTER IV.--Of Imagination Contemplative.
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