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
Hanging Gardens of Babylon; 29;
interior structure of, 29, 30;
and Semiramis, 30;
and Nebuchadnezzar, 30
Henry of Ofterdingen, 110
"Hercules of Assyria," 24
Hermann, Count of Thuringia, 110
Herodotus, "Father of History," 47
Herostratus, 60
Heshâm, 126
Hexastyle, 52
Homer, "Iliad" and "Odyssey" of, 47
"House of the Virgin," 62 (and _see_ Parthenon)
Houses of Parliament (London); 170;
and Gothic revision, 171
Hypostyle Hall (Karnak); 11;
compared with St. Peter's (Rome), 140
Ibn-touloun, mosque built by, 123
"Iliad," knowledge of Grecian history from, 47
Inigo Jones. _See_ Jones, Inigo
Inscriptions, Arabic, 130
Invalides, church of the, 156-158
Ionic capital, 55, 56
Ionic order; 52-54;
traced back, 55;
capital of, 55, 56;
architrave of, 56;
columns of, 56;
compared with Doric order, 57;
combined with Doric in interior of the Parthenon, 64
Isabella and Ferdinand, reign of, 145
Isis, temple of, 18
Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, 16
Italy;
architecture of; 87;
Byzantine order in southern part of, 111;
best days of architecture in, 144
Jaen (Granada);
cathedral of, 146
Jay, Hon. John, home of, 184
Jerusalem, temple of;
Gateway Huldah of, 44;
design of, proving Roman influence, 45
Jones, Inigo (architect); 166;
designer of Chiswick House, 167;
designer of Wilton House, 167
Jordan, ruins beyond, 44
Josef de Churriguera, 146
Josephus, proving time of building temple of Jerusalem, 45
Judea;
art-history of, 44;
ruins of, at Jerusalem, Baalbec, Palmyra, and Petra, 44
Justinian (Emperor), and St. Sophia, 119
Kaitbey, mosque at, 125
Karnak, palace-temple of; 8-12;
Hypostyle Hall in, 10
Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, 16
Khorsabad, palace of, 26
La Scala, Milan, 180
Lateran, palace of, 81
Leonardo da Vinci, 153
Library of St. Mark's (Venice), 142
Liverpool, St. George's Hall at, 169
Livy, works of, 134
Longfellow, home of, 184
Louis I. (Bavaria), and revival of Greek art, 173, 175
Louis XIII. (France), and classic architecture, 161
Louis XIV. (France), and revival of classic architecture, 162
Louis XV. (France), 158
Louis Philippe, 162
Louvre (Paris), 160
Lowell, James Russell, home of, 184
Ludwig Strasse (Munich), architectural failure, 177
Luther and castle of Wartburg, 111
Lyons, new Bourse in, 162
Lysicrates, monument of, 67
Madeleine, church of the, 160
Malaga, churches of, 146
Mans, monastery at, 103
Mansard, Jules Hardouin, 156
Marburg, 110
Marcus Scaurus, 80
Marseilles, exchange at, 162
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, 68
Mausolus, 69, 70
Maxentius, basilica of, 79
Mecca, 123
Medinet Habou, house at, 16
Mehemet Ali, 15
Memorial Hall (Cambridge), 188
Memphis, ruins of, used in new buildings, 7
Metope, 53
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