Excursions in Art and LettersStory, William Wetmore
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Excursions in Art and Letters
Story, William Wetmore
Arts
Ghirlandajo, Michel Angelo’s early master, 10, 22.
Giorgione, 4.
Giotto, 4;
the campanile of, 6;
frescoes of, 7;
accomplished in many arts, 43.
Glycon, 109.
God, tendency to humanize and degrade, 198;
the justice of, 200;
supposed ideas of, held by Marcus Aurelius, 199–202;
man cannot comprehend, 203;
yet man makes, 203;
Christian and pagan conceptions of, compared, 199–208;
representations of, in art, inferior to pagan works, 208.
Gods, images of, in early Greece, with clothes and false hair, 152;
the ancient, but anthropomorphic symbols, 210.
Gonsalvi, Cardinal, and Michel Angelo, 13.
Good, real, done only by gradual changes, 197.
Gorgasus, 117, 146.
Gorgias, 88.
Greek and Roman art, the spirit of, 19.
Greek sculptors not accustomed to put their names on statues, 107.
Guarini, 3.
Guelphs end Ghibellines, 3.
Guicciardini, 8.
Gypsum, not used by the ancients in casting, 157–159, 169;
Pliny on, 169.
Hamlet, the warnings of, needed by English actors, 234, 235;
not Hamlet on the English stage, 238;
mental aberration of, compared with that of Macbeth, 249, 250.
Hegias, 88.
Hermitage, Museum of the, 163.
Hercules, statue of, by Dædalus, 182, 186.
Hesychius, cited, 70, 103.
History, who knows, 214;
must be interpreted by imagination, 214.
Homer, and Virgil, 30;
relief in the British Museum, representing the deification of, 109.
Honesty of intention, not enough, 221.
Horace, quotation from, 126.
Horse-Tamer, the, statue of, ascribed to Phidias, 67, 70–79.
Hugo, Victor, and Lamartine, 30.
Hunt, Leigh, 233.
Iasos, 94.
Iconic statues, first made by Antenor, 129.
Ictinus, works of, 113.
Idealisti, motto of the, 232.
Images, draped with real stuffs by the Greeks and Romans, 152;
false hair on, 152.
Imagination in art, 232;
may work independently of real feelings, 251.
Inevitable, the, should be accepted without murmuring, 229.
Isis, 221.
Isocrates, quoted, 66.
Italy, the land of the Renaissance, 5.
Jehovah, the, of the Jews, development of, 205.
Jeremiah, figure of, by Michel Angelo, 27.
Jesus, reverenced by Marcus Aurelius, 199, 220.
John of Bologna, the Rape of the Sabines by, 6.
Julian, statement by, about Phidias, 84.
Julius II., Pope, and Michel Angelo, 21–25;
strikes Michel Angelo with a cane, 25.
Juno, the Temple of, at Argos, 53.
Jupiter, the true philosophic idea of, 204–207.
Jupiter Pluvius, 216.
Kalamis, 88;
works of, 93;
compared with Phidias, 96.
Kallimachus, 88.
Kallon, 88.
Kean, Charles, 236, 237.
Kean, the elder, 236.
Kemble, John, as Hamlet, 238, 239.
Kertch, excavations at, 163;
so-called casts from, in the British Museum, 164, 165.
Kleoitas, 88.
Knight, Richard Payne, opinion of, on the Elgin marbles, 99.
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