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
France;
and revival of classic art, 134;
and Gothic architecture, 153;
sovereigns of, as influencing architecture, 154;
change in style in, from Gothic to Renaissance, 156;
style of Henry IV. in, 161;
time of classic revival, 162;
domestic architecture of, 162;
_Neo-Grec_ style in, 165, 166;
modern, 165, 166
Francesco Sforza, 144
Francis I., of France;
and introduction of Italian art, 154;
Louvre rebuilt by, 160
Frieze;
definition of, 53;
of Ionic order, 56;
of Tuscan order, 76;
of Walhalla, 178
Gargoyle, 98
Garibald, King of Bavaria, 90
Gateway Huldah of temple at Jerusalem, 44
Gateways;
in walls of Nineveh, 21;
in walls of Babylon, 29;
golden, iron, and brazen, of palace of Diocletian, 86
Germany;
and revival of classic art, 134;
imitation of details of Greek architecture in, 173;
modern architecture of, 173
Ghizeh, pyramids of, 3
Gibbon (historian) and St. Sophia, 122
Giotto's campanile, 112
Girard College (Philadelphia), 186
Glaber, Rodulphe, 93
Glyptothek at Munich, 177
Gothic order;
Fergusson's location of, 93;
extension and origin of, 93;
invention of interior aisles in, 98;
design of, in ornament, 99;
painted glass applied to, 100;
Spanish variation of, 105;
modification of in Northern Italy, 111;
combined with Eastern decoration in Venetian architecture, 114;
last distinct order, 133;
in France, 153;
union of, with Italian design in France, 154;
in England, 166;
in the Tudor age, 170;
and Houses of Parliament, 171
Goths, temple of Diana burned by, 61
Goujon, Jean, and the Louvre, 160
Goya, 149
Græco-Roman style, 146
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 110
"_Grand Monarque._" _See_ Louis XIV.
"_Grands Hommes_," Pantheon dedicated to, 158
Great Hall of Audience;
plan of, 41;
theories concerning, 42
Great Hall of Baths of Diocletian, 80
Great Palace near Persepolis, 36-38
Grecian Doric order;
shaft of, 12;
domestic architecture of, 70
Greece;
art of, as compared with that of Egypt, 20;
prehistoric days of, 47;
origin of architecture of, 48;
coloring of marbles in, 65;
skill in deceiving the eye, in architecture of, 67;
theatres of, 68;
origin of drama in, 68;
effect in Germany of discoveries in, 173
Greenwich Hospital, 169
Gregory I. (Pope), 92
"Groves of Pillars," 44
Hadrian; 77;
tomb of (castle of St. Angelo), 84
Halicarnassus;
mausoleum at, 68;
in possession of Knights of St. John, 70;
name of, changed to Boodroom, 70;
sculptures of, in British Museum, 70
Hall of Fame, 176 (and _see_ Ruhmeshalle)
Hall of One Hundred Columns, 38
Hall of Xerxes, 38-41 (and _see_ Great Hall of Audience)
Hampton, palace of (designed by Wren), 169
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