Excursions in Art and LettersStory, William Wetmore
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Excursions in Art and Letters
Story, William Wetmore
Arts
the greatest monuments of his artistic power, 44;
enduring kingdom of, 48;
popular errors about, 49, 50, 69;
compared with Phidias, 79, 80.
Antenor, the first maker of iconic statues, 129.
Antoninus Pius, 230.
Apelles, and Alexander, 131;
praised by Nicephorus Chumnus, 132;
price paid for one of his portraits of Alexander, 132;
portraits of Campaspe and Phryne by, 132;
story about, by Pliny, 132.
Aphrodite Urania, chryselephantine statue of, by Phidias, 53, 58.
Apollo, the Temple of, at Phigaleia, 53.
Apollodorus, 182.
Apollonius, 109.
Appian hymn, the, 206.
Arcesilaus, sketches by, 135;
price received by, for a drinking-cup, 170;
for a statue of Fabatus, 170, 176.
Aretino, 3, 8.
Arezzo, discoveries at, 178.
Arezzo, Guido di, 4.
Argos, the Temple of Juno at, 53.
Ariosto, 3;
Dante and, 30;
lively spirit of, 42.
Aristotle, distinction drawn by, between Phidias and Polyclitus,
99–102.
Arrian, cited, 66, 70.
Art, deathblow of pagan, 1;
Christianity and, 1;
and religion, 2, 4, 208;
the golden age of Italian, 4;
spirit of Greek and Roman, 19;
ancient works of, difficulty of determining authorship of, 69;
the toreutic, 100;
the productions of, always show the true spirit of religion among
any people, 208;
and nature, 232, 233.
Artemisia and Mausolus, 132.
Arts, all, aid each other, 43.
Athena Areia, statue of, by Phidias, 53, 58;
its height, 62;
described, 65.
Athena Lemnia, statue of, by Phidias, 62;
beauty of, 65.
Athena of the Parthenon, chryselephantine statue, by Phidias, 50–68,
82, 83, 97, 98, 111, 209, 210.
Athena Promachos, the, cast from spoils taken at Marathon, 59;
its height, 62, 64.
Athenagoras, cited, 66, 70.
Aulus Gellius, definition of “facies” by, 121.
Aurelius, Marcus, the Meditations of, 190–193, 228;
how the Meditations were written, 191;
no book of ancient literature higher and purer, 192;
his dust, 192;
a conversation with, 193–230;
Jesus of Nazareth reverenced by, 199;
supposed ideas of God held by, 199–202;
cannot understand modern pronunciation of Latin, 217;
purely a Stoic, 220;
did not persecute Christians, 220;
letters of, on the proper treatment of one’s enemies, 228.
Aurora, figure of, by Michel Angelo, 14–21.
Ausonius, cited, 68.
Baldi Chapel, the, 7.
Bargello, the, 6.
Bartolommeo, Fra, 31.
Baruch, cited, 150.
Batrachus, 107.
Beethoven and Mozart, 30.
Bembo, 4.
Berlinghi, family of the, 10.
Bibbiena, 3.
Biblical history, in Michel Angelo’s frescoes, 28, 29.
Boccaccio, 3.
Boiardo, 3.
Borgia, Lucrezia, 264.
Bostick and Riley, translation of Pliny by, 135.
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