Louis XIV.
Political circumstances under, 233, 234
Necessity for extreme centralisation, 233, 234
Building of Versailles, 234, 236, 240
Gardens of Versailles, 238, 239
Pierre Puget and, 236, 237
Marquise de Montespan and, 232, 233
Louis XV.
Popularity of single figures and statuettes, 240
Pigalle and, 241, 242
Louvre
Works in, 106, 236, 242, 244, 254, 266, 267
Preferred by Colbert to Versailles, 235, 236
Dalou, curator of, 272
Lovelace, 257
Luca della Robbia
Singing Gallery (Cantoria), 178, 179
“Visitation” at Pistoja, 179
Humanity of his religion, 179
Comparison with Donatello, 179
Relation to Michael Angelo, 184
Lucca, 154
Lucian, 36, 79
Ludovisi Villa, 89-90
Leubke, Dr., and “Ares Ludovisi,” 72
Luther, 224
Luxembourg, works in, 270, 272, 273
Value to French sculpture, 280, 281
Lycæan Gymnasium, Athens, 67
Lycurgus (The Athenian), 66, 67
Lysimachus, 86, 90
Lysippus, 65-80
Historical circumstances of his age, 66-68
Effect on sculpture, 68, 69
“Apoxyomenus,” 68-75
Characteristics of his style, 68, 70-75
Portraiture of, 77-80
Portrait of Alexander, 78, 79
“Ares Ludovisi,” 72
“Agias,” 73, 74
“Cerigotto Bronze,” 103
Hercules, type fixed by, 101
His preference for bronze, 68
Followers of, 79, 84, 100, 104, 120
Lysistratus of Sicyon, 79
Macedonia. _See_ Alexander
MacDowell, Patrick, 281, 284
“Madonna,” by Ugolino, 171
“Madonna della Guardia,” 10
Mæcenas, 125
Malatesta, Signor, 163
Magliabecchian Library, 162
Maison Carré at Nîmes, 137
Mantegna, 184
Mantinea, Battle of, 66
Mantua, 174, 175, 181
Marathon, 26, 28
Marble
Copies of bronze originals, 24, 68, 90, 105, 120
Pentelic, 29
Praxiteles’ use of, 58
Bronze preferred by Polyclitus and Lysippus, 68
In “Dying Gaul,” 90
Marcus Aurelius, 139
“Mark, St.,” by Donatello, 172
Maria della Vittoria, St., 216, 217
Marius, 124
“Marseillaise,” by Rude. _See_ Chant du Départ
Marshall, W. Calder, 284
“Maternity,” by Dalou, 299
Matilda, 153
“Matthew St.,” by Ghiberti, 172
Mausoleum
Of Halicarnassus, 48, 49
“Charioteer,” 50, 74
Mausolus, statue of, 50
Maximilian, tomb of, 223-224, 298
Mazarin, 234
Mazzini on Italian liberty and art, 200, 201, 218
Medici Family
Donatello and, 173
Relation to Florentine art, 181, 182
Medici Chapel, 189, 191-197
Michael Angelo and, 187, 188, 191, 192
The Papacy and, 191, 192
In sixteenth century, 199
Patron of Cellini, 205
Catherine of Medici, 225
“Meleager,” 71, 72
Melos, 42, 112
Menelaus, 122
“Menelaus and Patroclus,” 53, 75
Mengs, Raphael, 246
“Mercury,” by Pigalle, 242
“Mercury inventing the Caduceus,” by Idrac, 270
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