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[Slip inserted:  Mod. Painters Vol. I / Pt. 1. Sec. 1 Chap III / Page 12. Text. / Ideas of Power]
      
      
      
     Nay - it is not merely {of} the vulgar and unfeeling - but {even} of men of educated
     minds - who have paid no right attention to art.     And how many
     there are of such - it needs but little reading to prove.  Does Pliny
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fol. 13r	Chapter II in Part I, Section I: 'Definition of Greatness in Art' (3.92) and
		Chapter III in Part I, Section I: 'Of Ideas of Power' (3.93)
      
      
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     <That is>
     That is the greatest picture which conveys to the mind of the spectator
     the greatest number of the greatest ideas in the clearest language .
     #39#Our first point of investigation must be . therefore . Which are the greatest
 5   ideas .   What constitutes greatness in ideas . & what ideas we can. receive {from
     pictures}
     I call an idea great. in proportion as it pleases . elevates . or in any way
     benefits . the Mind .     But I call an idea which elevates. greater than
     one that <p> only pleases -  as for <an> instance - <a> {<an> idea of} colour which
     leads the mind
     to reflection & emotion . greater than {an} idea of simple beauty of blue or red .
10   and an idea which instructs . greater than one that elevates .
     We can receive              kinds of Ideas from <pictures> works of art
     1st.  Ideas of Power .      The contemplation of the powers mental or
     bodily necessary to the production of the work of art.
15   <2>4th .  Ideas of Beauty .     Either in the thing produced . or thing imitated
     2.   Ideas of Imitation .   That the thing produced resembles something else
     3.   Ideas of Truth .    When we receive from the thing produced .
     			information of certain facts of which we were
     			ignorant or incognizant .
20   4th.  Ideas of Relation .*

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