Michael Angelo, and church of S. Maria Degli Angeli, 80; and St. Peter's (Rome), 138-140 Middle Ages; Italian towers of, 111; prosperity of architecture of (Venice), 114 Middle period in America, 184 Milan, La Scala of, 180 Minarets of mosques, 125 Minerva. _See_ Athena Modern architecture; imitative, 133; since Renaissance, 133; in Italy, 134; three eras of, in Spain, 146; in Germany, 173; diversity of style of, in United States, 186 Mohammed, 123 Mokattam Mountains, 4 Monks of Middle Ages, 102 Monolith of the Gateway Holdah, 44 Monuments in France, 164 Monza, cathedral of, 92 Moresco or Moorish order, 106, 123 Morris, General, and "Old Morrisania," 184 Morrisania, 184 Mosaics of St. Sophia, 120 Mosque; at Cairo, 123; minarets of same, 125; near Cairo, 125 Mosque of Cordova, 126; De Amicis, concerning, 126; naves of, 127; marbles of, 127; columns of, 127, 128 Mosque of Kaitboy, 125 Mother of God, church of (Constantinople), 123 Muezzin, the call of, 125, 126 Munich; modern architecture of, 173, 174; church of St. Ludwig at, 175; Ruhmeshalle at, 176; glyptothek of, 177 Museum; of Berlin, 177; at Oxford, 170, 171 Music halls, 180 Mutules, 65 Mycenæ, 48 Mythology, 47 Napoleon I.; and pyramids, 3; tomb of, 158; inscription from will of, 158; Car of Victory, trophy of, 173 Napoleon III., 162, 166 Nebuchadnezzar; and "Hanging Gardens," 30; and Birs-i-Nimrud, 32 Neo-Byzantine order, 117 Neo-Grec order, 166 Nero (Emperor), temple of Diana robbed by, 61 New museum at Oxford, 170, 171 New theatre, Dresden, 177 Newton, discoverer of sculptures at Halicarnassus, 70 New World, discovery of, 145 New York, Trinity Church in, 188 Nile, near Thebes, 14 Nineveh; walls of, 21; gateways of, 21; ornamentation of gateways of, 23; palaces of, 27 Norman Conquest, 116 Northern Spain, Arabs of, 128 Obelisk; now in Paris, 13; at Alexandria, 15; Cleopatra's Needles, 15; expressing worship, 16; in Central Park, New York, 16; the Assyrian, 28, 29 "Odyssey," knowledge of Grecian history from, 47 "Old Morrisania," 184 Opera House (Paris), 180 Order. _See_ Gothic, Moresco or Moorish, Civil, Neo-Byzantine, _Neo-Grec_, Romanesque, Byzantine, Saracenic Order of the Garter, symbol of, 89 Oriental art; characteristics of, 59; and the caryatid, 59 Oxford, new museum at, 170 Painted glass and Gothic architecture, 100 Palace; of Khorsabad, 27; of Ecbatana, 34; of Susa, 34; of Artaxerxes Ochus, 38; of Darius, 38; of Xerxes, 38; of Diocletian at Spalatro, 86; of the Escurial, 147, 149; of Versailles, 162; of Whitehall, 166; of Hampton, 169; of Winchester, 169 Palaces; of Assyria, 23-26; of Nineveh, 27