Chapter V: Of Typical Beauty:--First, of Infinity, or the Type of

Divine Incomprehensibility.

Sec. 1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject. 38
Sec. 2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached. 38
Sec. 3. The child instinct respecting space. 39
Sec. 4. Continued in after life. 40
Sec. 5. Whereto this instinct is traceable. 40
Sec. 6. Infinity how necessary in art. 41
Sec. 7. Conditions of its necessity. 42
Sec. 8. And connected analogies. 42
Sec. 9. How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expression
of infinity. 43
Sec. 10. Examples among the Southern schools. 44
Sec. 11. Among the Venetians. 44
Sec. 12. Among the painters of landscape. 45
Sec. 13. Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt. 45
Sec. 14. The beauty of curvature. 46
Sec. 15. How constant in external nature. 46
Sec. 16. The beauty of gradation. 47
Sec. 17. How found in nature. 47
Sec. 18. How necessary in Art. 48
Sec. 19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness. 49