Chapter V: , Of Truth of Space:—Secondly, as its Appearance is dependent on the Power of the Eye

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