Adriani, Giovanni Battista, letter of, to Vasari, 140. Æschines, statement by, regarding Miltiades, 129, _note_. Æschylus and Euripides, 30; quotation from, 206. Agasias the Ephesian, 109. Agathenor, 94. Ageledas, teacher of Polyclitus, 88. Agoracrites, 66, 67, 70; and Alcamenes, 71; and Phidias, 72; statue of Nemesis, at Rhamnus, by, 70, 91. Ajax, the antique, 6. Alberti, Leon Battista, 3, 8. Alcamenes, 55; the Venus of the Gardens, by, 68, 90; and Agoracritos, 71; and Phidias, 72, 96; high distinction of, as an artist, 90; works in the Temple of Zeus, 93. Alcimus Avitus, quotation from his _De Origine Mundi_, 127. Alexander, taming Bucephalus, statue of, at Rome, 77, 78; praises Apelles and Lysippus, 131. Alfieri, 8. Ammonius, 108. Anacreon, quotations from, 144. “Ancora imparo,” a motto used by Michel Angelo in old age, 13. Androsthenes, 88, 92. Angelo, Michel, 4–7; everything in Florence recalls, 8; his house, 8, 9; birth, 9; death, 10; early studies, 10; early efforts as a sculptor, 10; his Cupid and Bacchus, 10; his Pietà, 11, 20; colossal figure of David, 11, 20; Sistine Chapel, 11; the Moses, 11, 20; Medici Chapel, 11; Pauline Chapel, 11; the Last Judgment, 11; sculptor, painter, architect, engineer, and poet, 11, 43; erection of St. Peter’s, 11; his circumstances and characteristics, 12; always learning, 13; his later poetry, 13; his power as a sculptor, 13, 20, 39; his great works in the Medicean Chapel, 13–21; meaning of his statues of Day, Night, Aurora, and Crepuscule, 16–18; quatrain by, 17; influence of Savonarola and Dante on, 17; his works bad models for imitation 20; figure of Christ by, in the Church of the Minerva, 20; his struggles against ill-health and overwork, 20, 21; his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, 21–29; Bramante’s jealousy of, 21, 22, 24; Pope Julius II. strikes him with a cane, 25; his extraordinary rapidity in working, 25, 26; greater as a painter than as a sculptor, 26; of heroic spirit, 29; fragments of letters by, 30, 36; Rafaelle and, 30–33, 35; anecdote of, 32; personal characteristics of, 33, 34; and Vittoria Colonna, 34; extract from a sonnet by, 34; Dante the favorite poet of, 35; Savonarola the friend of, 35; originality of, 35; devotion to his family, 36; generosity of, 36, 37; violent temper of, 33, 37; patience of, 37; difficulties under which he labored, 37, 38; described by Vigenero, 38; the impatience of his genius, 39; appointed architect of St. Peter’s when sixty years old, 39; Palazzo Farnese, the Church of Sta. Maria degli Angeli, and the Laurentian Library, designed by, 41; not responsible for St. Peter’s as it now stands, 42; poetry of, 42, 43; trained in all the arts, 43;