A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureWaters, Clara Erskine Clement
History
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
Art -- History
Palace-temples, Egyptian, 8
Palais du Trocadéro, 165
Pantheon (Rome); 76-78;
rotunda and porch of, 76;
preservation of, 77;
inscription on portico of, 77;
burial-place of Raphael and Annibale Caracci, 78
Pantheon (Paris), 158;
and _see_ church of St. Genevieve
Parapet of Ducal Palace, Venice, 142
Paris;
rebuilt, 162;
the boulevards of, 164;
new opera house of, 180
Parthenon (Athens); 53, 54;
built of Pentelic marble, 64;
of Doric order of architecture, 64;
erected under care of Phidias, 64;
sculptures of, 64
Paul Silentiarius and description of St. Sophia, 120
Pediment, 54
Pepperell, Sir William, 184
Pericles at Athens, 61
Peristyle, 52
Persepolis;
great palace near, 36-38;
spring residence of Persian kings, 42
Persia;
inscriptions found in, 21;
palaces of, 34;
taught by Assyria and Babylonia, 34;
platforms of, 36;
regularity of architecture of, 43;
faults of architecture of, 44
Peruzzi, 140
Pharaoh, and tombs at Beni-Hassan, 6
Phidias;
and Athena Promachos, 62;
Parthenon erected under care of, 64;
sculptures executed by, 64
Philæ;
temple on island of, 18;
buildings at, 19
Philip II. of Spain;
and decline of Spanish art, 145;
and the Escurial, 146;
cell of, in the Escurial, 149;
chair of, 150
Piazza of St. Mark (Venice), 142
Picture Gallery, Dresden, 177
Piers, Egyptian, 11
Pilasters, 52; 127; (and _see_ Antæ)
Pillar of the Gateway Huldah, 44
Pillars;
of Great Hall of Audience, 38-41;
of Doric order, 52;
of San Miniato, 116;
of Ducal Palace, 142;
(and _see_ Columns)
Pinacotica, near Baths of Caracalla, 81
Pinakothek (Dresden), 177
Pitti Palace, gallery of, 138, 154
Platerisco, 146
Platforms, Persian, 36
Pope, the, and Italian art, 154
Porches of Northern Italy, 112
Porte St. Denis (Paris), 164
Portico;
of basilica of St. Mark's, 115;
of the Court of Lions, 130;
the Ruhmeshalle, 176;
of Capitol at Washington, 183
Praxiteles and temple of Diana, 60, 61
Priene, temple of Athena at, 55
Priests, patrons of art during Middle Ages, 102
Primaticcio, 153
Prince Louis of Thuringia, 110
Promachos (_see_ Athena), 62
Propylæa;
Assyrian, 24;
of Acropolis, 62, 64
Proto-Doric order, 7
Ptolemies, 17
Public Library of Munich, 177
Pyramids of Cheops; 2;
size of, 3;
interior of, 4
Pyramids of Ghizeh; 3;
tombs near, 5
Quatrefoil, 142
"Queen Anne style" in America, 186
Rameses the Great. _See_ Colossi.
Raphael, 140
Ratisbon, the Walhalla near, 178
Reformation, the, 133
Religion;
influencing Egyptian art, 8;
a factor in national architecture, 9
Renaissance; 104; 134;
buildings erected in Italy during, 142;
and Leonardo da Vinci, 145;
and Michael Angelo, 145;
and Raphael, 145;
in England, 166
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