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
Basilica;
of St. Paul's (Rome), 88;
of the Escurial, 146, 148;
near St. Mark's, 114;
at Munich, 175
Basilicas;
of Rome, 78;
of Trajan and Maxentius, 79;
columns of, 79;
given up to Christians, 87
Bas-reliefs, of Assyria, 22
Baths;
of Agrippa, 76;
of Diocletian, 80;
of Caracalla, 80
Battiste Monegro, statues of Escurial by, 149
Bavaria, bronze statue of, 176
Bedford House, 184
Belus, temple of (Babylon), 31
Belzoni, and tomb of Seti I., 7
Beneventum, arch of, 82, 83
Beni-Hassan, tombs at, 5
Benvenuto Cellini, 153
Bergamo, porch at, 112
Berlin;
Brandenburg Gate at, 173;
New Museum at, 177
Bianca, wife of Francesco Sforza, 144
Birs-i-Nimrud, 32
Bishop of Paris, St. Germain, 173
Boodroom, name of Halicarnassus changed to, 70
Boulevards (Paris), 164
Bourse (Lyons), 162
Bow Church (London), steeple of, 168
Bramante; 140;
great court (Milan), designed by, 144
Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), 173
British Museum, 169
Broletto at Como, 112
Brunelleschi, Filippo; 134;
and story of Columbus and the egg, 138;
statue of (Florence), 138;
architect of Pitti Palace, 138, 154
Byzantine order, the;
geographical boundaries of, 93;
in Southern Italy, 111, 115;
and Constantinople, 117;
the dome the chief characteristic of, 117;
and the Greek Church, 117;
decline of, 117;
exterior and interior of, 119
Byzantine-Romanesque, 115, 122
Cæsar, works of, 134
Cairo;
mosque at, 123;
mosque near, 125
Caliph Abd-er-Rahman, 126
Callimachus (sculptor), and Corinthian capital, 58, 59
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College at, 169
Campaniles, 112, 114 (and _see_ Clock-tower).
Canterbury Cathedral, and pointed arches, 124
Capital;
definition of, 11;
varieties of in Great Hall of Karnak, 40;
Grecian, 52;
Ionic, 55;
of Corinthian order, 57, 58;
of Roman Composite order, 75;
variety of in mosque of Cordova, 128;
in Ducal Palace, 142
Capitol;
State and National, 181;
at Washington, 182, 183;
of Ohio, 183;
at Albany, 188
Car of Victory, and Napoleon, 173
Cardinal Richelieu, 154
Caria, King of, 69
Caryatides; 59;
of the Walhalla, 178
Casino;
at Newport, 188;
at New York, 188
Castle of Wartburg, 109, 110
Cathedral;
at Aix-la-Chapelle, 123;
at Florence, 136, 138;
at Jaen, 146;
at Valladolid, 146;
of St. Paul's London, 167;
at New York, 188
Cecilia Metella, tomb of, 84
Cella, 51
Central Park, New York, obelisk in, 16
Chambord, château of, 154, 161
Champs Elysées, Arc de l'Étoile in (Paris), 165
Charlemagne, 123
Charles I. of England and classic art, 134
Charles V. of Spain, abdication of, 146
Charles IX. of France, 161
Chehl Minar, 38 (and _see_ Great Hall of Audience)
Chenonceaux, châteaux of, 154
Cheops. _See_ Pyramids
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