Kolotes, an assistant of Phidias, 55; statue of Athena attributed to, by Pliny, 66, 70, 91. Lacon, 88. Lactantius, 206. Lamartine, Victor Hugo and, 30. Lanzi, 8. Laocoön, the, 19. Latin, modern pronunciation of, unintelligible to Marcus Aurelius, 217. Laurentian Library, the, 42. Lazarus, and Dives, 223. Lear, the aberration of mind of, different from that of Macbeth, 249, 250. Leo X., Pope, 13, 14. Leochares, statues by, 130. Leonardo, 43; competition of, with Michel Angelo, 22; story about his death, 74. Libeccio, the howling, 190. Libon, 113. Lippi, 7. Loclos, 94. Lomazzo, statement by, about Leonardo’s death, 74. Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, 14. Lorenzo the Magnificent, 3; favors Michel Angelo, 10. Lucan, lofty idea of God expressed by, 207. Lucian, cited, 65, 67; his ideal image of the most beautiful woman, 96; comment by, on Demetrius, 130; the “Tragic Jupiter” of, citations from, 181–185; the “Somnium, seu Gallus,” of, quoted, 187. Lysias, cited, 101, _note_. Lysippus, statue of Opportunity by, 68; varies the canon of proportion, 73; gives a new impulse to the school of portraiture, 131; praised by Nicephorus Chumnus, 132. Lysistratus, and the art of casting in plaster, 116, 117, 139, 141, 143, 145; and the practice of portraiture, 131; probable use of color by, 154. Macbeth, the true character of, 239–285; not understood by Lady Macbeth till after the murder of Duncan, 241, 242, 244, 277; Shakespeare’s worst villain, save Iago, 284. Macbeth, Lady, the real, 230–241, 251–282. Macchiavelli, 3, 8. Maderno, Carlo, St. Peter’s injured by, 42. Madonna di San Sisto, the, 32. Mai, Cardinal, 122, _note_. Mammon, worshiped, 227. Man, inferior to woman in adjusting details, 259. Marathon, the use made of spoils taken from the Medes at, 59. Marbles, the Elgin and Phigaleian, work on, in the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, 99, 110. Masaccio, 7. Mausolus, statue of, 131. Medicean Chapel, the, 9, 11; great works of Michel Angelo in, 13–21, 39. Medici, real mausoleum of the, 9; burial chapel of the, 44–48; coffins of the, neglected and robbed, 45–47; sad lesson of their fate, 48. Medici, Giuliano dei, mausoleum to, 14. Melzi, cited, 74. Metagenes, and the Temple of Initiation at Eleusis, 52. Metoscopi, a story about, 132. Middle Ages, the, 2. Middleton, the witches of, different from Shakespeare’s weird sisters, 285, 286. Miltiades, portrait statue of, at Delphi, 129. Minerva, Church of the, 20. Mini, Antonio, 21. Mini, Giovanni Battista, letter by, 21. Mirandola, Pico della, 3. Mithras, 221, 225. Mnesicles, 52. Molière and Racine, 30. Moses, statue of, by Michel Angelo, 39. Mount Mithridates, excavations at, 163. Mozart, Beethoven and, 30.