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The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

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by Edward Hollis


  Little Red Riding Hood, 11–12

  Livy, 152

  Lobkowicz, Baroness Beligna Katherina von, 97–98

  Lombardy, 120

  London, 6–7, 24, 97, 116, 233, 250

  British Museum, 28–30, 35

  Nash terraces, 219

  Park Lane, 24, 27

  St. Paul’s Cathedral, 6, 116

  Loos, Adolf, 6

  Loren, Sophia, 267

  Lorenzo the Magnificent, 152

  Loreto, Holy House of, 12, 84, 92–93, 97–98

  Louis XIV, king of France, 199–200

  Louis XVI, king of France, 198

  Louis XVIII, king of France, 199–200

  Louis Philippe, king of France, 198

  Lucian, 157

  Ludlow Castle, 115

  Luise, queen of Prussia, 174

  Lünser, Bernd, 240

  Luria, Rabbi Isaac de, 302

  Lusiere, Giambattista, 25

  Luther, Martin, 129

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 253

  Luxor, 49, 269

  Lysippus, 46

  M

  Macao, 259, 266, 275–76

  Macedon, 58

  Machuca, Pedro, 134

  Maghreb, 128

  Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 173

  Maillard, Mlle., 199–200

  Malamocco, Buono da, 50–51

  Malatesta, Polissena, 150

  Malatesta, Roberto, 164, 166

  Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo, 149–56, 160–61, 163–66

  Malatesta, Verruchio, 151, 154–55

  Malta, 75

  Malvern, Abbot, 119

  Manchester

  Free Trade Hall, 224

  Hulme Crescents, 207–30, 234

  music scene, 224–27

  nineteenth-century, 212–13

  Manchester Evening News, 212

  Manchester Guardian, 215

  Mandalay, 269

  Manhattan, 7

  Mantua, 166

  Mao Zedong, 270

  Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, 182

  Marseille, 216

  Martin, Dean, 263

  Martoni, Niccolo, 22

  Marx, Karl, 213–14, 233, 274

  Maryland, 265

  Matthews, Araminta, 247

  Max of Baden, Prince, 184

  Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor, 128

  Mazar, Benjamin, 285, 289

  Mecca, 22, 69, 71–72, 75, 296–98

  Ka’aba, 71–73, 77, 296

  Medina, 71, 74, 296

  Medlock, River, 212

  Mehmet II, Sultan, 23, 32, 69–71, 73–76, 78, 125, 142

  Mellish, Robert, 218

  Mesopotamia, 46

  Mexico, 83, 100

  Michael Palaeologos, emperor of Constantinople, 66

  Middle Ages, 11, 81, 105, 118, 125–26, 135–36, 143, 160

  Milan, 120

  Milasci, 120

  Millar, J. S., 218

  Milvian Bridge, Battle of the, 45

  Minneapolis, 272

  Mississippi River, 35

  Modernism, 209, 218, 224, 229, 233

  Moholy-Nagy, László, 224

  Monaco, 247, 251

  Montefeltro, Federico da, 150

  Moors, 127–29, 133

  Moorish musicians, 130

  More, Thomas, 217

  Moreton, Abbot, 115

  Morosini, Francesco, 24

  Morris, William, 205

  Morritt, John Bacon Sawry, 26

  Mortimer, Roger, 107–8

  Morwent, Abbot, 115, 118

  Moscow, 173, 247

  Mount Moriah, 90

  Mount Parnassus, 46

  Mount Zion, 297

  Muhammad, Prophet, 22–23, 68–69, 71, 74, 93, 139, 141

  night journey, 296–98

  Muhammed III, Sultan, 73

  Munich, 29, 185, 274

  Murad III, Sultan, 73

  Murat, Sultan, 72

  Mussolini, Benito, 295

  Mustapha I, Sultan, 73

  N

  Naples, 7, 56

  Bay of, 174–75

  Napoleon Bonaparte, 26–27, 31, 56–58, 143, 182, 197, 200, 203

  Nash, John, 212, 220

  Nashville, Tennessee, 15

  Nasrid dynasty, 139–40

  Nazareth, 284

  Holy House of, 89–95

  Nero, emperor of Rome, 20, 47–49, 56–57

  Golden House of, 141–42

  Nestor Iskander, 67

  Netherlands, 128–29, 133, 143

  New World, 127–28

  New York, 269

  Newton, Abbot, 119

  Nicomedia, 89

  Nishimura, Tokusen, 247

  Noailles, Cardinal de, 200

  Norfolk, 83, 94, 100

  North Africa, 128, 137

  North Sea, 132

  Northampton, 218

  Notre Dame de Paris, 187–206

  arcs boutants, 202–4

  conversion into republican temple, 199–201

  eighteenth-century modernization, 201–2

  and Hugo’s novel, 195–97

  restoration, 193–94, 201, 203–6

  Sully’s design, 201–3

  Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo), 195–97

  Nottingham, 206

  Nuremburg trials, 233

  O

  Ocean’s Eleven, 263

  Oder, River, 182

  Olympic Games, 48, 228, 249

  Omar, Caliph, 297–98

  oral tradition, 11

  Orlando, Florida, 266

  Orléans, duchesse d’ (Helen Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), 197

  Osman, tribe of, 69, 73, 77

  Osric, prince of the Hwicce, 109

  Otto, king of Greece, 30–32

  P

  Palermo, 29, 35, 173

  Palestine, 53, 89–90, 94, 99, 281, 289–92, 298

  Palestine Exploration Fund, 291

  Palestinian Authority, 283–84, 289–90

  Paolo Veronese, 42

  Paris, 35, 41–42, 47, 177, 213, 274

  Champ de Mars, 41

  Galeries Lafayette, 206

  Gare d’Orsay, 206

  Île de la Cité, 200–201

  Las Vegas and, 258

  the Louvre, 29, 35, 41–42, 57–58

  Museum of Antiquities, 198

  National Treasury, 199

  Place du Carousel, 42

  see also Notre Dame de Paris

  Paris Commune, 191, 198, 206

  Parker, Abbot, 119

  Parma, 152

  Parthenon, 9, 13–35, 39, 48, 61, 73, 81, 105, 125, 169, 233–34, 281–82

  Byron and, 28–29, 34, 209

  church of Holy Wisdom, 21–23, 33

  conservation, 34–35

  earthquake, 33

  explosion, 33, 125, 147

  frieze sculptures, 19, 22, 24–30, 35

  hekatompedon, 19, 21

  mosque, 21–24, 33, 125

  parthenon, 20

  proportions, 35

  restoration, 31–34, 189

  and souvenirs, 281

  Pasti, Matteo de’, 145, 153, 155, 160, 162–64

  Patten, Father, 100–101

  Paul the Silentiary, 65, 67, 73

  Pavia, 120

  Pawlowski, Volker, 245–47

  Pedro the Cruel, 129

  Pennsylvania, 270

  Pentelikon, 34

  Pergamon, 70, 72

  Pericles, 15, 18–19, 32–33

  Persia, 46, 68–69, 140

  Persius, Ludwig, 180, 184

  Peter, Abbot, 109

  Petronius, 152

  Phantom of the Opera, The, 271

  Phidias, 19, 21, 27, 31, 33–34

  Philip II, king of Spain, 143–44

  Philip of Macedon, 45–46

  Philip the Fair, king of Castile and León, 128

  Philippa, queen of England, 111

  Piero della Francesca, 154–55

  Piraeus, 34

  Pittsburgh,
272

  Pius II, Pope, 149–50, 165

  Plataea, Battle of, 46

  Plato, 18, 22, 25, 33, 105, 125, 152, 217

  Plenik, Jože, 9

  Pliny, 134, 160, 175

  Plutarch, 19, 25

  Podbrady, 83

  Poland, 182

  Polo, Marco, 258–60, 270, 276

  Pompadour, Madame de, 179

  Pompeii, 175

  Pontius Pilate, 90

  Portugal, 128

  Poseidon, 17, 24, 27

  Potsdam

  Babelsberg, 174, 181

  Cecilienhof, 181, 185

  Charlottenhof Palace (Siam), 173–76, 180, 183, 186

  Friedenskirche, 183

  Neues Palais, 179, 184, 186

  Nikolaikirche, 185

  Pfingstberg, 180

  Sans Souci palace, 31, 176, 186

  Schloss Glienicke, 174

  Stadtschloss, 185

  Potsdam Conference, 181, 184–85

  Prague, 83, 97–98, 182

  Prague Spring, 234

  Proclus, 17–21

  Procopius, 65

  Protestants, 98, 291–92

  Prussia, 31, 174, 176–77, 180–83

  Ptolemy, 142

  Puck, Wolfgang, 271–72

  punk rock, 224–25

  Pythagoras, 162

  Q

  Qian Qichen, 259–61, 263–64, 266–67, 269–70, 274–76

  quadriga (bronze horses), 44–47, 49, 55, 57–58

  Quaye, Finlay, 225

  Quebec, 83

  R

  Ramsay, William, 116–17

  Raphael, 42, 134

  Ravenna, 164

  Red Forts, 140

  Redditch, 218

  Regensburg, 15, 31, 294

  Regius Manuscript, 118

  Renaissance, 6, 11, 15, 39, 125–26, 134, 147–49, 158, 189, 257

  Republic (Plato), 217

  restoration, principles of, 205–6, 209

  Reuveni, David, 294–95

  Revett, Nicholas. See Antiquities of Athens

  Rheims Cathedral, 194

  Richard II, king of England, 113

  Richeldis de Faverches, 94–97, 100–101

  Riegl, Alois, 9

  Riga, 247

  Rimini, 149–54, 160–62, 164–66

  Castel Sismondo, 154

  church of St. Francis, 151, 153, 155, 160, 163, 166

  chapel of St. Sigismund, 153–55, 160, 163

  Famous Temple of, 148, 150, 160–66, 169

  Roman harbor, 164

  Röber, Jacqueline, 248–49

  Robinson, Edward, 291–92

  Roman Catholic Church, 63, 98, 101

  Roman Empire, fall of, 67–68

  Rome, 27, 40, 45, 47–48, 89, 97, 99, 143, 166, 185, 209

  Arch of Constantine, 45

  Arch of Titus, 45, 299

  and architecture, 134–35, 158

  burning of, 47

  Capitoline Hill, 45, 48

  Colosseum, 45, 178

  Field of Mars, 41, 46–48

  Forum, 45, 151, 169

  Forum of Trajan, 61

  and Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, 175, 180

  gardens of Maecenas, 153

  Golden House of Nero, 141

  Las Vegas and, 269

  and literature, 152

  mausoleum of Augustus, 48

  Napoleonic conquest, 41–42, 56, 58

  Nero’s arch, 49

  Palatine Hill, 45, 141–42

  Pantheon, 7, 158, 161–62, 286

  Papal Curia, 149–53, 156, 158, 165, 176

  ruined city gate, 161

  sack of, 61, 143

  St. Peter’s Basilica, 74

  Santa Maria in Cosmedin, 7

  Senate House, 48

  Tarpeian rock, 45

  temple of Jupiter, 45, 48, 169

  temple of Vesta, 48

  Theatre of Marcellus, 61

  Triumphs, 44–45, 48, 299

  Vatican, 29, 42

  Via Sacra, 45

  Villa Medici, 180

  Romulus and Remus, 44

  Ross, Diana, 277

  Rossi, Aldon, 8

  Rothschild, Baron Edmond de, 293

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 199

  Rumburk, 83

  Rumi, 68–69

  Rumpelstiltskin, 12

  Ruskin, John, 9, 205

  Russia, 175, 182, 184

  see also Soviet Union

  Russian Revolution, 216

  S

  Saduddin, 73

  Sahara Desert, 69

  St. Agatha, 55

  St. Anastasius, 55

  St. Anne, 85, 192

  St. Barbara, 111

  St. Claudia, 50–51

  St. Cyprian, 23

  St. David’s, 117

  St. Dionysios, 23

  St. Francis, 151

  St. Helena, 23, 55, 89–91, 94

  St. Joachim, 85

  St. John the Baptist, 55

  St. Joseph, 90

  St. Justin, 23

  St. Lawrence, 143

  St. Lawrence River (Kaniatarowanenneh), 84, 99

  St. Lucia, 55

  St. Luke, 23

  St. Maccabeus, 23

  St. Makarios, 23

  St. Mark the Evangelist, 42, 50–52

  winged lion of, 42–43, 55, 57

  St. Paul the Martyr, 55

  St. Peter, 96–97

  St. Sigismund, 153–55

  St. Symeon, 55

  St. Theodore, 43, 55, 57

  Saladin, 295

  Salford, 219

  San Gimignano, 135

  San Miguel de Allende, 83

  Santa Fé, 127

  Saville, Peter, 224

  Saxony, 182

  Scarpa, Carlo, 9

  Schabowski, Günther, 243–44, 246

  Scheerbart, Paul, 216

 

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