Excursions in Art and LettersStory, William Wetmore
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Excursions in Art and Letters
Story, William Wetmore
Arts
Müller, cited, 59, 101, _note_, 185.
Music, development of, 4.
Myron, 88;
great skill of, 89, 90;
inscription on his Discobolos, 108.
Mys, carving by, 64.
Myths, enchanting, 212.
Naiads, 1.
Narrow-mindedness, development of truth impeded by, 225.
Naturalisti, motto of the, 232.
Nature and art, 232.
Nemesis, statue of, at Rhamnus, 67, 70, 71;
inscription on, 109.
Nero, 77, 79;
like Macbeth, 243.
Nestocles, 88.
Nicephorus Chumnus, Apelles and Lysippus praised by, 132.
Nicias, statues colored by, 153.
Night, Michel Angelo’s colossal figure of, 14–21.
Odeum, the, 52, 53.
Olympia, the Temple of Zeus at, 53, 54.
Opinion, arrogance of, development of truth impeded by, 225.
Opinions but running streams, 229.
Orcagna, the Loggia of, 6.
Oreads, 1.
Orpheus, as the Good Shepherd, 1.
Othello, the trance of, unlike Macbeth’s aberration of mind, 249, 250.
Ovid, quoted, 122, 151.
Pæonios, 55, 88;
works of, 92, 93.
Pagan religion and pagan art, 1.
Painting, and sculpture, 1;
substances used by the ancients in, 145.
Palazzo Farnese, the, 41.
Pan, 1.
Pantarces, a victor in the Olympian games, 129.
Parrhasius, 64;
paints portrait of himself, 132.
Parthenon, the, sculptures in, 49, 50, 52–55;
builders of, 51, 52;
built between 444 and 438 B. C., 54;
the extant fragments of, not in the style of Phidias, 84–86;
probably executed by various hands, 94.
Pasiteles, 135.
Pauline Chapel, the, 11.
Pausanias, statements by, 59, 64–71, 75, 91;
the marble statues ascribed to Phidias by, 105–107;
on the invention of casting in bronze, 137.
Pelichus, statue of, by Demetrius, 130.
Pensiero, Il, 18.
Pericles, appoints Phidias director of public works in Athens, 49, 51;
directs the building of the Odeum, 52;
said by Strabo to have been director of public works, 52;
sole administrator of public affairs, 53;
likeness of, by Phidias, 60, 129.
Perkins, Charles C., his “Du Moulage en Plâtre chez les Anciens,”
115 ff.;
confounds modeling and casting, 162.
Perugino, 31.
Peruzzi Chapel, the, 7.
Petrarca, 3, 42;
admired by Michel Angelo, 35.
Petronius, cited, 90.
Phædrus, quoted, 108.
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