ts, their power over human nature, how symbolized by Spenser, ii.
328.
Luxury, how symbolized, ii. 342; how traceable in ornament, iii. 4;
of Renaissance schools, iii. 61.

M

Madonna, Byzantine representations of, ii. 53.
Magnitude, vulgar admiration of, iii. 64.
Malmsey, use of, in Feast of the Maries, iii. 117.
Marble, its uses, iii. 27.
Maries, Feast of the, iii. 117.
Mariolatry, ancient and modern, ii. 55.
Marriages of Venetians, iii. 116.
Masonry, Mont-Cenisian, i. 132; of walls, i. 61; of arches, i. 133.
Materials, invention of new, how injurious to art, iii. 42.
Misery, how symbolized, ii. 347.
Modesty, how symbolized, ii. 335.
Monotony, its place in art, ii. 176.
Months, personifications of, in ancient art, ii. 272.
Moroseness, its guilt, iii. 130.
Mosaics at Torcello, ii. 18, 19; at St. Mark's, ii. 70, 112; early
character of, ii. 110, iii. 175, 178.
Music, its relation to color, iii. 186.
Mythology of Venetian painters, ii. 150; ancient, how injurious to
the Christian mind, iii. 107.

N

Natural history, how necessary a study, iii. 54.
Naturalism, general analysis of it with respect to art, ii. 181, 190;
its advance in Gothic art, iii. 6; not to be found in the encrusted
style, ii. 89; its presence in the noble Grotesque, iii. 144.
Nature (in the sense of material universe) not improvable by art, i.
350; its relation to architecture, i. 351.
Niches, use of, in Northern Gothic, i. 278; in Venetian, ii. 240; in
French and Veronese, ii. 227.
Norman hatchet-work, i. 297; zigzag, i. 339.
Novelty, its necessity to the human mind, ii. 176.

O

Oak-tree, how represented in symbolical art, iii. 185.
Obedience, how symbolized, ii. 334.
Oligarchical government, its effect on the Venetians, i. 5.
Olive-tree, neglect of, by artists, iii. 175; general expression of,
iii. 176, 177; representations of, in mosaic, iii. 178.
Order, uses and disadvantages of, ii. 172.
Orders, Doric and Corinthian, i. 13; ridiculous divisions of, i. 157,
370; ii. 173, 249; iii. 99.
Ornament, material of, i. 211; the best, expresses man's delight in
God's work, i. 220; not in his own, i. 211; general treatment of, i.
236; is necessarily imperfect, i. 237, 240; divided into servile,
subordinate, and insubordinate, i. 242, ii. 158; distant effect of,
i. 248; arborescent, i. 252; restrained within l