Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 31–32, 169, 173–76, 179–81, 184–85
Scholl, Sophie, 31
Scotland, 25, 100
Scott, Fred, 9
Sebrok, Abbot, 115, 117–18
Segal, Rafi, 290
Seine, River, 198
Selim II, Sultan, 73
Serapis, 49
Serlo, Abbot, 109, 118–19
Severn, River, 107, 115
Seville, 129, 140
Sèvres, Treaty of, 76
Sex Pistols, 224, 229
Sforza, Francesco, 150
Shakespeare, William, 11
The Tempest, 7–8
Shanghai, 7, 263
Sharon, Ariel, 290
Sheba, 301
Sheffield, Park Hill estate, 218, 221
Sicily, 83
Sidney, Philip, 97
Siena, 150
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 151, 154
Silesia, 182
Sinai, 296
Sinan, 74–75, 294
Sinatra, Frank, 263
Singapore, 270
Six-Day War, 288
Skelmersdale, 218
Slany, 83
Society of Dilettanti, 28
Socrates, 18
Solomon, king of Israel, 65, 69, 295, 301
Sophocles, 18
Sophronius, Patriarch, 297
South China Sea, 277
Soviet Union, 181
see also Russia
Spain, 68, 127–29, 143, 318
reconquista, 126–27, 133
Spanish Inquisition, 294
Sparta, 152, 165
Spree, River, 35
Sri Lanka (Ceylon), 15, 128
Stalin, Josef, 184
Staunton, Abbot, 111–12, 119
Stewart, Helen, 260, 262
Stone, Sally, 9
stories, 11–12
Stuart, James. See Antiquities of Athens
Stuttgart, 185
Suleyman, Sultan, 72, 74–75, 294
Sulla, consul, 47
Sully, Maurice de, 201–4
Sweden, 247, 252
Syracuse, 7
Syria, 46, 142
T
Taut, Bruno, 216
Tersatto, 88, 92–93
Thames River, 35
Themistocles, 32
Theodora, empress of Constantinople, 64, 75
Theodosius I, emperor of Rome, 20, 32, 48, 64
Thermopylae, Battle of, 20
Thokey, Abbot John, 107–10
Thomas of Cantebrugge, 117–18
Thomas of Canterbury, 116
Thucydides, 15, 18, 25, 35
Thutmosis, Pharaoh, 49
Timbavati, 265
titanium, 35
Titus, 298–99, 302
Tivoli, 141, 175
Torcello, Rustico da, 50–51
Town, Ithiel, 5
Trelleborg, 247
Tresivio, 83
Troy, 22, 46, 105
True Cross, the, 90
Truman, Harry S., 185
Tschumi, Bernard, 35, 233
Tully, Robert, 117
Turkey, 78, 284
Tuscan language, 157
Tuscany, 56
Tzara, Tristan, 224
U
Ukraine, 261
Umayyad dynasty, 140
UNESCO, 78, 284–85
United Nations, 288
United States of America, 181
Ur, 300
Urbino, 150
V
Valhalla, 31
Valtelline, 83
Valturio, Roberto, 152, 165
Venice, 12, 24, 40, 43, 49–58, 66, 165, 175, 294
Arsenale, 55
Basilica of San Marco, 9, 42–43, 51–52, 55–56, 81
Bucintoro, 43
families of the Golden Book, 57
horses of San Marco, 41–43, 47–48, 55, 57–58, 66
Las Vegas and, 261–62, 267–69
Marco Polo and, 258, 270
Pala d’Oro, 42–43
Piazza San Marco, 57
Torcello island, 50
and tourism, 257, 272–74
winged lion of St. Mark, 42–43, 55, 57
Versailles, 178, 183, 197
Via Flaminia, 161
Vienna, 29, 35, 69, 182
Holy House of, 98
siege of, 129
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 9, 15, 189–90, 193–94, 197, 201, 203–6, 209
Virgin Mary
and Gloucester Cathedral, 112
and Hagia Sophia, 63, 66, 78
and Holy Houses, 82, 85–88, 90–91, 93–99
and Notre Dame de Paris, 191, 196, 201
Our Lady of Loreto, 98–100
Our Lady of Walsingham, 101
and Parthenon mosque, 23, 125
Visigoths, 10, 20, 143
Vitruvius, 6, 15, 159–60
Vivaldi, Antonio, 268, 272
Vivico company, 249–50
Vladimir, Prince of Kiev, 66
Voltaire, 177–79, 199
W
Wales, 117
Walsingham, 83, 93–97, 100–101
Waqf, the, 285–86, 288–89, 293
War on Terrorism, 78
Warhol, Andy, 224
Warren, Charles, 292
Wars of Religion, 97
Warsaw Treaty, 236
Washington, D.C., 247
Weizman, Eyal, 290
Westminster, St. Stephen’s Chapel, 116
White Mountain, Battle of the, 98
Wigmore, Abbot, 110–11, 119
Wilhelm I, kaiser of Germany, 183
Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany, 183–85
Wilhemine, Princess, 178
William, Abbot, 109
Wilson, Charles, 291
Wilson, Hugh, 212, 218–19
Wilson, Tony, 224–25
Wittelsbach, Otto Von, 30
Wittenberg, 129
Womersley, Lewis, 212, 218–19
World Congress of Architecture, 290
World War I, 76
World War II, 217
Wren, Christopher, 6
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 9
Würzburg, 29, 35
Wynn, Steve, 263–66, 268, 275
Wythenshawe, 228
Y
Yangtze River, 263
York, Duke of (Richard Plantagenet), 115
York, 89
Ysabel of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress, 128–30, 132, 136, 140, 143–44
Z
Zem Zem, the well of, 69
Zeno, 18
Ztenice, 83
Zkoor, Abas, 284
About the Author
Edward Hollis is an architect and designer who teaches at the Edinburgh College of Art. Trained at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, he worked for five years in the United Kingdom as a practicing architect, specializing in alterations to historic buildings. This is his first book.
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