The Westminster Review Volume 90-91 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...cases of Titian and Veronese, 70; the example of Ruskin in regard to Turner, ib.; the intellectual element in art, ib.; in the Madonna di San Sisto, 71; one of the meeting-points of music and painting, ib.; the meta-physical idea of beauty, ib.; origin of the doctrine. 71, 72; M. Felix Ravaisson on the metaphysical idea of beauty, 72; the experi-ential school and the doctrine of sensation, ib.; Cousin's reply, ib.; its fallacy, ib.; So-crates's definition of the beautiful, ib.; sensa-tion, meaning of the term, ib.; two classes of experience, ib.; the first, 72, 73; the second, 73; certain simple sensations a part of our nature, ib.; organic susceptibility of a sense of beauty, ib.; why pleasant tastes and smells are excluded from the class beautiful, ib.; the three characteristic virtues of the senses of sight and hearing, 74; the translation of na-tural objects into a picture, ib.; into poetry, 74, 75; other facts which give pleasure of the moral or intellectual kind, 75; the relations of beauty to virtue, ib.; early art in Greece, 75, '76; in architecture, 76; in chromatic decora-tion, ib.; in sculpture, 77; how with the ar-tist the worship of beauty supplants all other worship, ib.; the fate of religion as told by Greek art, 77, 78-the lesson to be learned from Italian art, 78; art in the age of Hilde-brand, ib.; in that of Massacio, ib.; in that of Veronese and Michael Angelo, 79; beauty for beauty's sake the final object of the artist, ib.; the lives of Artists, 79, 80; are the best epochs of art the most moral? 80; the cases of Greece and Italy, ib.; the business of the artist, ib.; the beauty of wickedness, 81; Baudelaire, Gautier, Mr. Swinburne, ib.; sen-sation, ib.; judged by an aesthetic standard, 81, 82;...