Excursions in Art and LettersStory, William Wetmore
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Excursions in Art and Letters
Story, William Wetmore
Arts
Cyrenaicn, the, fragments of figures from, 164, 165.
Dædalus, statue to Hercules by, 182, 186.
Dallaway, cited, 109.
Damophilus, 117, 146.
Daniel, Michel Angelo’s figure of, 27.
Dante, 3, 5, 6, 8;
his influence on Michel Angelo, 17;
and Ariosto, 30;
the favorite poet of Michel Angelo, 35.
David, Michel Angelo’s statue of, 8, 11.
Day, Michel Angelo’s colossal figure of, 14–21.
Deity, figure of the, by Michel Angelo, 27.
Delacroix and Ary Scheffer, 30.
Delphi, group of statues at, 59, 60, 62, 64, 121.
Demetrius, on the work of Phidias, 81;
introduces the realistic school of portraiture, 130.
Demosthenes and Cicero, 30.
Devils, the, that haunt and tempt us, come out of ourselves, 286.
D’Hancarville, cited, 109.
Dibutades of Sicyon, 137–139.
Diocletian, ruins of the Baths of, 41.
Diodotos, 70.
Dion Chrysostomos, on the style of Phidias, 81.
Dionysius of Colophon, 132.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the art of Phidias, 81, 102;
on the works of Polyclitus, 89.
Dives and Lazarus, 223.
Dolls, ancient, 166.
Drama, reaction in the, against conventionalism, 233.
Drill, the, supposed to have been invented by Callimachus, 171.
Dryads, 1.
Dust of the dead, 192.
Duty, the, of considering adverse doctrines, 224, 225.
Ectypa of baked clay, 156.
Eleusinian mysteries, meaning of the, 217, 218.
Eleusis, the Temple of Initiation at, 52;
the Temple of Ceres at, 52.
Elgin marbles, the, 49–114.
Elis, work of Phidias at, 53, 54.
Elpinice, portrait of, by Polygnotua, 132.
Epicurus, the face of, carried about by the Romans, 150.
Equanimity, the last watchword given by Antoninus Pius, 230.
Erechtheum, the, 94.
Esaias, Michel Angelo’s figure of, 27.
Euphranor, 73.
Euripides, Æschylus and, 30;
on the immensity of God, 206.
Ezekiel, Michel Angelo’s figure of, 27.
Fables of the ancients, the mythical garb of great truths, 211, 212;
true to the imagination, not to the reason, 212.
Facts, but dead husks, 212.
Faith, death of, 196;
easily degenerates into superstition, 204;
of the ancients compared with ours, 218–220.
Fame, what is, 228.
Fechter, as Hamlet, 236.
Fedi, 6.
Ficino, Marsilio, 3.
Firmicus, story by, about Zagreus, 101.
Florence, the city of the Renaissance, 5;
ungrateful, 7;
Dante and, 8.
Fol, Mr., the collection of, in Rome, 156, 168.
Forcellinus, cited, 120, 122, 123.
Forms, of little consequence, compared to essences, 195.
Formulas check growth in the spirit, 195;
but are useful, as trunks in which we pack our goods, 195.
Fornarina, the, 31, 34.
Francis I. and Leonardo da Vinci, 74.
Fresco-painting, source of the term, 25.
Fronto, _De differentiis Vocabulorum_ of, 122, _note_.
Galatea, the, of Raffaelle, 32.
Galileo, 4, 8.
Garrick, 236–238.
Germans, as students of Shakespeare, 237.
Ghiberti, 6, 8, 43.
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