7;
his Enthusiasm and munificent gift to the English National
Gallery, i, 7.

Beauty, Ideal, as Conceived and Practiced by the Greatest
Masters, ii, 247.

Belzoni--his Travels in Egypt, iii, 25.

The Belzoni Sarcophagus, ii, 194.

Bernazzano, the Zeuxis of Italy, ii, 140.

Bernini, the Cav., i, 101;
his Precocity, i, 101;
his Bust of Charles I. and his Prediction, i, 101;

Bernini and Louis XIV., i, 102;
his Triumphal Visit to Paris, i, 102;
the Medal struck in his Honor, i, 103;
his Works, i, 103;
his Restoration of the Verospi Hercules, i, 104;
Lanzi's Critique, i, 103;
his Love of Splendor and his Riches, i, 104;
Bernini and Urban VIII., iii, 256.

Blake, William--his Enthusiasm, Eccentricity, and Poverty, i, 3;
his melancholy yet triumphant Death, 1, 4.

Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, iii, 305.

Bridge, Trajan's, across the Danube, i, 164.

Bridge, Mandrocles', across the Bosphorus, ii, 162.

Bridge, the Britannia Railway Tubular, iii 46;
the Tubes, iii, 47;
the Piers, iii, 48;
Construction of the Tubes, iii, 49;
Floating the Tubes, iii, 50;
Raising the Tubes, iii, 52;
the prodigious Hydraulic Presses used, iii, 53;
Bursting of one, iii, 55;
Sir Francis Head's Description, iii, 56;
Cost of the Structure, iii, 57.

Brower, Adrian, iii, 182;
his Escape from a Cruel Master, iii, 183;
Brower, the Duke d'Aremberg, and Rubens, iii, 184;
his Death, iii, 184;
his Works, iii, 185.

Brunelleschi, Filippo--remarkable instance of the Trials and Triumphs
of Genius, iii, 80;
his Inquiring Mind, Industry, and Discoveries, iii, 81;
his Genius, iii, 82;
his Ambition, iii, 83;
his first Visit to Rome and Assiduity, iii, 84;
Assembly of Architects to consult on the best means of raising the
Cupola of the Cathedral of Florence, iii, 85;
his Return to Rome, iii, 86;
his Invitation back to Florence, iii, 87;
his Discourse, iii, 87;
his Return to Rome, iii, 89;
grand Assemblage of Architects from all parts of Europe, iii, 90;
their Opinions and ridiculous Projects to raise the Cupola, iii, 91;
Filippo's Opposition and Discourse, iii, 92;
taken for a Madman, and driven out of the Assembly, iii, 93;
his Discourse, iii, 94;
his Arguments, and his Proposal that he who could make an Egg stand
on one end should buil