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