Excursions in Art and LettersStory, William Wetmore
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Excursions in Art and Letters
Story, William Wetmore
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Sistine Chapel, the, 11;
Michel Angelo’s frescoes in, 21–29, 44;
opened to exhibit the frescoes in 1508 on All-Saints’ Day, 23.
Sixtus V., 77.
Smith, Philip, cited, 59, 61, 76.
Socrates, 88.
Solon, cited, 70.
Sophocles, unity and universality of God proclaimed by, 200.
Spartianus, statues modeled in plaster spoken of by, 160.
St. Paul, quoted, 231.
St. Peter’s, the Dome of, 5, 8, 11;
Michel Angelo’s work upon, 39–42;
the type of the universal church, 41;
Michel Angelo not responsible for it as it now stands, 42;
changes made in, by Carlo Maderno, 42.
Sta. Maria degli Angeli, Church of, 41.
Stage, tradition and convention on the English, 234–240.
Statius, quoted, 144.
Statues, ancient, singular defects in, 173.
Strabo, statements by, about Pericles and Phidias, 52;
opinion of, on the statue of Nemesis, at Rhamnus, 70;
on the work of Polyclitus, 89, 96.
Strozzi, Giovan’ Battista, quatrain by, 17.
Suidas, 72.
Sunium, 64.
Tartuffe, Macbeth not like, 254.
Tasso, 3, 42.
Tenerani, 61.
Tennyson, Browning and, 30.
Terra cotta, an ancient manufactory of, 178.
Tertullian, on the persecution of the Christians, 222.
Themistius, a saying of, 56;
cited, 80.
Theocosmos, 67, 92;
said to have been assisted by Phidias, 75.
Theocritus, 206.
Theodorus of Samos, cast in bronze, 136.
Theophrastus, treatise on mineralogy by, 159.
Thiersch, cited, 59, 61, 68.
Thoughts, our whole nature colored by our, 229.
Thrasymedes of Paros, 66, 70.
Thundering Legion, the, true story of, 215, 216.
Tintoretto, 4.
Tiridates, King of Armenia, 77, 79.
Titian, 4.
Toreutic art, the, 100.
Tradition, in English church and theatre, 235;
Shakespeare’s meaning perverted by, 238, 240.
Traditions about artists, unreliable, 74.
Troughton, Mr., 233.
Truth, infinite in form and spirit, 195;
a continual progression towards the divine, 195;
not all embraced in one system of religion, 224;
the growth of, impeded by narrow-mindedness, 225.
Tussaud, Madame, 154.
Tzetzes the Grammarian, story told by, 72;
an untrustworthy gossip, 73;
on Phidias, 103.
Urban VIII., 78.
Urbino, Michel Angelo’s servant, 37.
Valerius Maximus, quoted, 110, 111.
Valerius Soranus, God represented by, as the Father and Mother of
us all, 207.
Valori, Bartolommeo, letter to, 21.
Varro, quoted, as to the meaning of “cera,” 144.
Vasari, Giorgio, doubtful assertion of, 25;
on Raffaelle, 33;
account by, of Verrocchio’s making casts, 188.
Veronese, 4.
Verrocchio, 43;
casting in plaster introduced by, 188.
Via Latina, tombs in the, 157.
Vigenero, description of Michel Angelo by, 38.
Villari, 3.
Virgil, Homer and, 30;
quoted, 122, 136.
Visconti, quoted, 99, 100;
his views examined, 100–104.
Vitruvius, 145;
description of process used in finishing walls by, 153.
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