Excursions in Art and LettersStory, William Wetmore
History
Excursions in Art and Letters
Story, William Wetmore
Arts
Portraiture, in its true sense, the beginning of, 130;
development of, by Lysippus and Lysistratus, 131;
earliest specimen of, by a great painter, 132;
use of, by the Romans, 150.
Possis, excellent work of, 148.
Praxias, 88, 92, 94, 95.
Praxiteles, statue of Alexander taming Bucephalus, ascribed to,
77, 78;
praised by Lucian, 96;
and Nicias, 153;
price offered by Athens for the Venus of, 175.
Pre-Raphaelites, error of the, 233.
Printing, among the ancient Romans, 167.
Propertius, quoted, 98.
Propylæa, 53.
Pulci, the three, 3.
Pythagoras, 88.
Quinctilian, quoted, 98, 125;
criticises Demetrius, 130.
Quincy, M. Quatremere de, on chryselephantine statues, 100.
Quirinal Hill, statue of the Horse-Tamer on the, 67, 76.
Racine, Molière and, 30.
Raffaelle, 4, 8;
and the Sistine Chapel, 24;
and Michel Angelo, 30–33, 35;
character and style of, 31;
his finest work, 32;
his early death, 32;
characterized by contemporaries, 33;
and the Fornarina, 31, 34;
accomplished in many arts, 43.
Ravenna, Dante’s grave at, 8.
Reform, slow movement of, in England, 235.
Rehoboam, group by Michel Angelo, 29.
Religion, and art, hand in hand, 208;
no system of, ever embraced all truth, 224.
Religious controversy, nothing so bitter as, 225.
Religious ideas, each age has its, 196.
Renaissance, the, 3–5.
Revolutionizing the world, 227.
Rhamnus, statue of Nemesis at, 67, 70, 71.
Rhœcus, cast in bronze, 136.
Riches, denounced by Christ, 222.
Riley and Bostick, translation of Pliny by, 135.
Roman and Greek art, the spirit of, 19.
Rousseau and Voltaire, 30.
S. Justinus, 206.
S. Theophilus Antiochenus, 206.
Sallust, quoted, 152.
San Gallo, Antonio, architect of St. Peter’s, 39.
San Lorenzo, Church of, 9, 13.
Santa Croce, Church of, 7, 8.
Saurus, 107.
Savonarola, 5;
his influence on Michel Angelo, 17, 35.
Scheffer, Ary, Delacroix and, 30.
Scopas, 67;
celebrated for heroic figures and demigods, 75;
a worker in marble, 76.
Sculpture, and idolatry, 1;
considered more dignified than painting, by the Athenians, 133.
Second-sight, Macbeth’s, 246.
Secretive nature, the, always a puzzle to the frank nature, 244.
Semele and Zagreus, 161.
Seneca, quoted, 110;
sentiments of, regarding God, 207, 208.
Shakespeare, and Sir Philip Sidney, 30;
testimony of, as to English actors, 235;
interpreted by the Germans, 237;
his meaning perverted on the English stage, 238, 240;
no serious character of, rants like Macbeth, 251;
a master-stroke of, 259;
Iago and Macbeth his worst villains, 284;
his weird sisters a new creation, 285.
Sibylline verses, fragment of the, 206.
Sibyls, representations of, by Michel Angelo, 27, 28.
Siddons, Mrs., as Lady Macbeth, 239, 240, 264.
Sidney, Sir Philip, Shakespeare and, 30.
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