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by Charles Freeman


  Constantius, emperor, 88

  Contarini, Gasparo, 130

  Contarini family, 136

  copper, 10, 50, 56, 175, 184–5, 254–5, 263–7, 270, 277; see also metal casting

  Corfu, 80, 117

  Corinth, 5, 49

  Corippus, 26–7

  Cornaro family, 136

  Corone, 128

  Correggio, 3, 181

  Corsica, 191, 192n

  Coryat, Thomas, 94, 140, 165–6, 169

  Crete, 85, 110, 175

  Crome, J. F., 257–8, 259

  Croton, 147

  Crouzet-Pavan, Elisabeth, 135

  crusaders, 77–87

  crusades, 77, 135; see also Fourth Crusade

  Ctesiphon, 269

  Cyprus, 128, 166

  Cyriacus of Ancona, 137–8, 142–3

  Cyzicus, 138

  Dalmatian coast, 75, 117, 128, 136, 196

  Damascus, 73

  Dancing Faun, 170

  Dandolo, Count Girolamo, 237

  Dandolo, Enrico, 76–80, 83, 84–7, 89–91, 92, 95, 107, 123, 247; death in Constantinople, 86, 95

  Dandolo, Giovanni, 107

  Dandolo, Raniero, 86

  Dante, 145; Inferno, 103

  Danube, River, 21

  Daru, Pierre, History of the Venetian Republic quoted, 190

  David, Jacques Louis, 6, 201; The Oath of the Horatii, 177

  de Quincy, Quatremère, 6, 215, 219

  Delphi, 14, 24, 49, 50, 59, 258, 262; charioteer, 50, 51, 189

  Demetrius Poliorcetes, 258, 259

  Demus, Otto, 116

  denarius, 44

  Denon, Vivant, 203–4, 206, 209, 210, 215–16, 217, 219

  Desaix, Louis Charles Antoine, 215

  Description d’Egypte, 204

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 246

  Dickens, Charles, 244

  Dio Cassius, 30

  Diocletian, emperor, 15, 88

  Dioscuri, 139, 184, 200

  Directory, 3, 192; overthrown, 201

  doges, 71, 86, 105–20, 126, 131, 191, 275, 276; elections, 109, 120; ceremonials, 110–12, 117, 120, 134; decline, 118–20; succession, 119; corno, 194, 195

  Dolce, Ludoviso, Dialogo della Pittura, 146

  Donatello, 54, 156, 157, 160

  Doni, Anton Francesco, 152

  Dresden, 180

  ducats, 123

  Duino, 249

  Dürer, Albrecht, 152

  Dying Gladiator, 221

  Egypt, 3, 26, 53, 77, 78, 209, 264, 275; Mameluke, 135; Napoleon’s expedition, 206; art, 234

  Eirene, empress, 106

  Elba, 207

  electroplating, 266

  Eleutherae, 237

  Elgin, Lord, 209, 222, 226, 227–9, 230; see also Parthenon sculptures

  Elijah, 97–8, 99

  Elsner, Jas, 267

  England, 128, 129, 170–1, 172, 181, 210

  English, 213, 218, 242

  Enlightenment, 4, 5, 177, 235, 242

  Ephesus, 17

  equestrian statues, 155–7

  Eraclea, 116

  Etruscans, 41, 44; art, 234

  Euboea, 32, 41, 128

  Eugenius IV, Pope, 137

  Euphranor (sculptor), 143

  Euphrates, river, 21

  Eusebius of Caesarea, bishop, 20

  evangelists, 100–2

  Ezekiel, 75, 97

  Falier, Angelo, 106

  Falier, Doge Ordelafo, 106

  Falier, Giovanni, 211

  Ferrara, 129, 235

  Ficino, Marsilio, 146

  Filarete (Antonio Averlino), 154

  Fire-gilding, 264–6

  First World War, 244, 251–2

  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 161

  Florence, 54, 148, 181, 200, 217, 240; baptistery, 266; Church of Santa Croce, 214; Tribuna, 170, 174

  Fontaine, Pierre-François-Léonard, 203

  Fontainebleau, 171, 216

  Fourth Crusade, 5, 14, 77–83 passim, 122, 247

  Fra Urbino, 141–2

  France, 128, 133, 167, 189, 191, 195, 245; king of, 130; under Napoleon, 201, 214, 235; in defeat, 207–10

  Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, 219, 224

  Francis I, King of France, 171, 172, 200

  Franco, Veronica, 167

  Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, 127

  French, 213, 218, 242

  French Revolution, 186, 189, 190, 192, 196, 235

  Friuli, 128

  Futurists, 251

  Galata, 117

  Galeazzo, Gian, 128

  Galliazzi, Vittorio, 90, 258, 259

  Gattalamata (Erasmo da Narni), 156

  Gaul, 47

  Gavagnin, Armando, 254

  Gazette Nationale, 6

  Genoa, 68, 75, 77, 117, 118–19, 127

  George Syncletus, 66–7

  German, 238, 242

  Germanicus, 46

  Germany, 123, 186, 189, 206, 237–9

  Geta, Caesar, 269, 270

  Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 139; Gates of Paradise, 266

  Gibbon, Edward, 62, 177, 236

  gilding, 264–5; fire-, 265–6

  Giorgione, 152; Sleeping Venus, 148, 273

  Giotto, 275, Expulsion from the Temple, 102–3

  Giustinian, Pietro, 140

  Giustiniani, Bernardo, 31, 91

  Goess, Count Peter von, 224

  Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von, 12, 49, 185–9, 233, 234; Italian Journey quoted, 69

  gold, 254–5, 264–6

  Golden Horn, 117

  Goldoni, Carlo, 176

  Goths, 236

  Gozzi, Carlo, 195

  Gradenigo, Doge Pietro, 119; exhumed, 194

  Gradenigo, Marco, 117

  Grand Tour, 234

  Grande Armée, 203, 207

  Greece, 85, 182, 229, 237; ancient, 7, 12, 180, 234, 238; horses, 33, 49; four-horse chariots, 36; bronze casting, 50, 59; under Roman empire, 131, 180, 184; climate, 181

  Greek, 137, 144, 238

  Greeks, 40–1, 59, 238, 259; Orthodox, 81; in Venice, 134–5; craftsmen, 269–70

  Gregory the Great, Pope, 236

  Guardi, Francesco, 176

  Guasco, Octave, 185

  Habsburgs, 129–30, 218

  Hadrian, emperor, 23, 138, 143, 154, 184, 228, 254, 267

  Hadrian’s Wall, 264

  Haimo of Auxerre, 100

  Halicarnassus, mausoleum, 257

  Hamilton, William, 209, 218–19, 221–2, 228

  Hampton Court, 172

  Hannibal, 136

  harma, 97

  Hartleben, Lehmann, 256

  Hawkwood, Sir John, 148–9

  Haydon, Benjamin, 230–3, 238, 273

  Hector of Troy, 33–4, 37

  Helen of Troy, 84, 147

  Helicon, Mount, 25

  Heliopolis, 26

  Helios, 35

  Hellespont, 21, 80

  Henry, emperor, 86

  Henry III, King of France, 166–7

  Henry IV, King of France, 200

  Hera, head of, 84

  Herculaneum, 256

  Hercules: statues, 25–6, 84; reliefs, 93, 114–16; statuette, 264

  Herod, King, 249

  Herodotus, 181

  Heyne, Christian, Gottlieb, 89

  hippodromes, 22–30, 42–3, 110–12, 114, 116, 118–20, 275; spina, 24, 27; obelisks, 26, 27; ‘eggs’, 27

  Holland, 129, 191

  Holy Land, 77, 78, 86

  Homer, 33–4, 37, 137, 180

  homosexuality, 245, 246

  Horace, 145

  horses: burial, 33; rarity in Greece, 33; teams of four, 33–4; harness, 40–1; ideal, 148–9; breeds, 238, 260; manes, 260; in Texas, 272

  horses of St Mark’s: taken to Paris, 1–4, 196–7, 201–5, 214, 274; symbolism, 8; cast in copper, 10, 175, 184–5, 236, 262–4, 266–7, 270; gilding, 10, 59, 185, 188–9, 220, 236, 254, 264–7, 270; aesthetic impact, 10–11, 273–4; manes, 10, 260; eyes, 11, 261, 262; harness, 11,
41, 127, 267; size and proportions, 12, 188–9, 232, 236, 257, 260, 267; origins, 13–14, 30–1, 48, 60, 138–43, 173–5, 185, 230–40, 256–71; attributions, 14, 59–60, 138–40, 142–3, 230, 231, 237, 238; in Constantinople, 5, 13, 14, 48, 63, 141, 173, 237, 254, 257, 274; brought to St Mark’s, 89–91, 94–7, 274; identification, 89–91; copied by Giotto in Padua, 103, 104; Petrarch’s description, 110, 133, 138; Bellini’s depiction, 112, 113; functions in Venice, 117–18, 127–8, 131; model for Julius Caesar’s horse, 134; Cyriacus’s description, 137–8; as ideal horses, 148; as artistic models, 148–52, 156, 161; as tourist attractions, 152, 154, 157, 161; position, 157–8; reproductions, 159–61, 272; seized by Napoleon, 172; Winckelmann’s account, 184–5; Goethe’s description, 187–9, 233; return from France, 210, 211, 219–21, 223–7, 276; Canova’s early knowledge, 212; and Parthenon sculptures, 222, 230–3, 257; Cicognara’s treatise, 236–8; in Rogers’s poem, 246–7; Ruskin’s description, 248; Proust’s description, 249; in Rilke’s poem, 250–1; collapse of Campanile, 251; First World War, 252, 253–4; Second World War, 254; pollution threat, 254–5, 276; placed inside St Mark’s, 255; styles, 259, 262, 267, 270; Roman era date, 266–7, 269; as cultural icons, 272–7; Zanella’s poem, 275–6

  Horses of the Carrousel, The, 198

  Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, 170–1

  Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 238

  Hundred Years War, 128

  Hungarians, 75, 76, 78, 98, 119, 243

  Hungary, 149; kings of, 108; queen of, 171

  Hypatius, proclamation of, 65, 66

  iconoclasts, 49

  Iliad, 33, 36

  Impressionists, 201n

  India, 166

  Innocent III, Pope, 77, 78–80, 85–6

  Isaac II, emperor, 79, 81

  Ischia, 41

  Istanbul, 88; Archaeological Museum, 258

  Italia, 214

  Italian, 137, 145, 186, 213

  Italy, 6, 47, 68, 69–71, 77, 133, 139, 156, 186; French invasion (1494), 129; Habsburg domination, 130; travel in, 154; antiquities on display, 169–70; Napoleon invades, 190–2, 199–200, 235; removal of art treasures, 206, 209, 217, 235; genius of, 213–14; Napoleon proclaims himself king, 216; revived nationalism, 235, 239–40, 241; in First World War, 251–2

  Jacoff, Michael, 90, 99–102

  James, Henry, 245, 249

  Jena, battle of, 238

  Jerusalem, 77, 108; Solomon’s Temple, 94; Temple, 102–3

  Jews, 196

  John of Austria, Don, 166

  John the Deacon, 121

  John, emperor, 98

  Jones, Inigo, 171

  Josephine, Empress, 206, 208

  Josephus, 23

  Julius Caesar, 5, 106, 134, 195, 201

  Julius II, Pope, 169–70

  Junius Brutus, 5, 195, 201

  Jupiter, 46

  Justin II, emperor, 26, 64

  Justinian, emperor, 63, 65–6, 67, 68, 70; corpse violated, 82; porphyry head of, 89, 93

  Knight, Payne, 228, 229

  Knights of the Golden Spur, 168

  La Sensa, 117

  Lake Coniston, 249

  Laocoön, 2, 170, 171, 182, 200, 221

  Latin, 137, 144–5, 146

  Latins, 81

  lead, 263, 265

  League of Cambrai, 129

  Lecky, William, 62

  Lefkandi burial, 32–4, 36, 38

  Leghorn, 4

  Leitz, Joseph, 237

  Leo I, emperor, 107

  Leo the Great, Pope, 20

  Leopardi, Alessandro, 156–7, 158

  Lepanto, battle of, 166, 276

  Lepcis Magna, 269

  Levant, 128–9

  Libérateur (ship), 193

  liberty, 6–7, 181, 183–4

  Licinius, emperor, 25

  Lille, Comte de, 191

  Liverpool, Lord, 208

  Livy, 133, 145

  Lombardy, 192

  London, 74, 224–5, 227–9; Apsley House, 216; Burlington House, 228, 230; Royal Academy, 225, 230; Somerset House, 230

  London Courier, 208, 210, 220

  Louis IX, King of France, 87

  Louis XIV, King of France, 172, 203; equestrian statue, 58, 60

  Louis XV, King of France, 206

  Louis XVI, King of France, 191, 207, 235

  Louis XVIII, King of France, 207, 218, 220

  Louis Napoleon, Emperor, 243

  Lysippus, 14, 26, 60, 143, 175, 185, 231, 237, 238, 259; Chariot of the Sun, 140, 141, 258

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 129

  Magi, Filippo, 261, 262

  Manin, Daniele, 242–3, 244, 254, 276

  Manin, Ludovico, 194

  Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice, 241, 246

  Mantegna, Andrea, 145

  Mantua, 129

  Manuel, emperor, 75–7, 98, 110

  Marat, Jean Paul, 201

  Marathon, battle of, 262

  Marcian, emperor, 88

  Marcus Aurelius, emperor, 45, 136; equestrian statue, 54, 154–7, 184, 200, 260, 262, 266

  Marengo, battle of, 215

  Marie-Louise of Austria, Empress, 206, 216

  Mark Antony, 25

  Markman, Sidney, 257, 259

  Mars, 203, 215–16

  Mars Ultor, 47

  Marseilles, 4, 175

  Maxentius, emperor, 17, 24, 262

  Medici, Catherine de’, 200

  Medici, Cosimo de’, 54, 55, 146

  Medici, Francesco de’, 170

  Mediterranean Sea, 67–8, 71, 92, 118, 123, 137–8, 175

  mercury, 264–6

  metal casting, 50–61; lost-wax method, 53, 59; indirect method, 58–9, 60, 262–4

  Metternich, Prince, 224

  Michael Palaiologos, emperor, 117

  Michelangelo, 54, 146, 154–5, 157, 160, 181; Madonna, 199

  Michiel, Doge Vitale, 75

  Milan, 125, 128, 129, 200; duke of, 127

  Milton, Henry, 204–5, 220

  Milvian Bridge, battle of the, 15, 17, 18, 24

  Mocenigo, Doge Alvise, 167

  Modena, 200

  Modon, 128

  Molmenti, Pompeo, 166

  Montfaucon, Bernard de, L’Antiquité expliquée, 172, 181

  Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de, 6, 176

  Morosini, Doge Marino, 108

  Morosini, Domenico, 95

  Morosini, Thomas, 85, 86

  Moses, 20

  Mother of God, 98

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 273

  Munich, National Museum, 161

  music, 176, 273

  Mussolini, Benito, 254

  Myron, 237

  Naples, royal family, 218

  Napoleon Bonaparte: seizure of St Mark’s horses, 1, 3, 5–6, 172, 197–8, 211; on men of genius, 7; downfall, 8, 207; demolitions in Venice, 125, 158, 235; in Italy, 172, 190–4, 199–200, 235; overthrow of Venetian republic, 189, 194, 213; signs Treaty of Campio Formio, 196; first consul, 201; emperor, 201; commissions triumphal arches, 203–4; depicted in quadriga, 204; lack of aesthetic taste, 205–6; relations with Canova, 211, 214–17; king of Italy, 216; Il Bello, 235

  Napoleonic Wars, 186

  Negroponte, 128

  Nelson, Lord, 218

  Nelson, Robert, 272

  Nemea, 49

  Nero, emperor, 47–8, 50, 60, 140–1, 182, 185, 218; reign of, 106, 174, 185, 236; head of, 237; gilding statue of Alexander, 264

  New Testament, 100, 103

  New York Public Library, 272

  Nicaea, 21

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 186

  Nievo, Ippolito, 194

  Nika riots, 65–6, 68

  Niketas Choniates, 79, 82–5, 89, 98, 259, 271

  obelisks, 26–8

  Oddy, Andrew, 266

  Odyssey, 33

  Old Testament, 97, 100, 103

  Olivetti, 8, 255

  Olympia, 41, 49, 274; statue of Zeus, 139

  Olympic Games, 37–9
, 41, 49, 143, 239, 274

  Orestes, 39

  Orpheus, 211

  Orwell, George, Animal Farm, 201

  Ottoman empire, 16, 142

  Ovid, 42–3

  Padua, 73, 125, 127, 128, 133, 145, 160, 168; Arena (or Scrovegni) Chapel, 102–3, 104, 275; basilica of Sant’Antonio, 156; Palazzo della Raggione, 146; University, 275n

  Palazzeschi, Aldo, Il Doge, 277

  Palladio, Andrea, 125, 168–9, 171, 187, 211, 213, 224, 248, 275

  Palma il Giovane, Jacopo, 83, 92

  Paphos, 159

  Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai, 29, 31, 90, 140, 237

  Paris, 74, 140, 172, 198, 210, 237, 244, 250; arrival of St Mark’s horses, 1–4, 274; centre of European culture, 7; sewerage system, 203; Canova in, 214, 216; removal of St Mark’s horses, 219–21, 223, 276

  LANDMARKS: Arc de Triomphe, 203; Arc du Carrousel, 198n, 203, 205, 219, 221, 266, 274; Esplanade des Invalides, 221; Hôpital des Invalides, 197; Louvre, 5, 200–1, 204, 207–10, 220, 221; Musée Napoleon, 201, 206, 207; Musée Royale, 207; Palais Royal, 209; Place de Vendôme, 203, 204; Place du Carrousel, 203, 220; Sainte-Chapelle, 87; Tuileries, 191, 200–1, 202, 204, 207, 214, 220

  Parma, 200

  Parthenon sculptures, 209, 222, 225–33, 257, 260, 274

  Parthians, 47, 140–1, 269

  Patroclus, 37

  Paul III, Pope, 54

  Pausanias, 49, 143, 258

  Peleus and Thetis, 35

  Peloponnese, 85, 128, 176, 229

  Pemble, John, 244; Venice Rediscovered, 245

  Pergamum, 257

  Perseus, 4; Cellini’s, 54–7, 263

  Persia, 259

  Perugia, 200

  Peschiera, 192

  Petrarch, 110, 111, 132–4, 137, 138; edited by Bembo, 145

  Phidias, 14, 59, 138–9, 140, 142, 143, 175, 180, 225, 230, 231; Canova as ‘the new’, 213

  Philip of Macedon, 21, 138, 184

  Philip II, King of Spain, 166, 167

  Philopappus of Commagene, 17, 138

  Piazzetta, Giambattista, 177

  Pincus, Debra, 108, 136

  Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 233–4, 236; Capricci, 234; Vedute, 234

  Pisa, 68, 75, 77, 118

  Pisano, Giovanni, 102

  Pius VI, Pope, 2, 199, 214, 218

  Pius VII, Pope, 207, 214, 216–18

  plague, 168, 175

  Plato, 17, 146–7, 180; Idea or Form of Beauty, 146–7, 273

  Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 139–40, 143, 145, 146–7, 174, 175, 180, 182, 185, 228, 258, 264

  Pliny the Younger, 42

  Plutarch, 4

  Po, River, 252

  Pola, 136

  Polyclitus, 147–9, 180, 237

  Pompey, 46

  Portugal, 129

  Possagno, 198, 211, 240

  pottery, Roman, 145

  Praxiteles, 139, 140, 159, 175, 180

 

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