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INDEX.

A
AACHEN, church at, 5.
Abati, Neri, sets fire to Florence, 202
Agnolo di Tura, extract from his chron-
icle concerning plague at Siena, 166.
Alberti, Leon Battista, returns to Flor-
ence from banishment, 279 ; dedica-
tion of his treatise on Painting to
Brunelleschi, ib.
Alexander III., Pope, strife with Fred-
eric Barbarossa, 66 ; legend concern-
ing, 67.
Architects, Italian, their sense of value
of proportion, 162.
Architectural design in Italy during the
eleventh century, 25.
Architecture, from the eleventh to thir-
teenth century, the clearest expression
of the distinction between modern and
ancient civilization, 10.
------ history of, during the Dark Ages
analogous to that of language, 12.
------ the year 1000 marks the revival
of, 13.
------ influence of the Church upon, 13.
------ Romanesque style of, 22.
------ methods of construction in me-
diæval, 24.
------ evolution of Gothic, from the
Romanesque, 27.
------ color in, a special gift of the Ve-
netians, 56.
------ character of Gothic, in Tuscany,
92, 136.
------ dome of Brunelleschi marks an
epoch in, 250.
------ the dome the most appropriate
form in, for a political symbol, 250.
Arnolfo di Cambio intrusted with the
work upon the Duomo of Florence,
192 ; his recompense, 194 ; death of
( 1310), 199 ; his works in Florence,
ib.
Art, loss of the sense of the worth of an-
cient, 4.
------ classic, influence of, upon artists
of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies, 241.
Arts, efforts of Charlemagne to restore
life and order to the, 5.
------ date of the reawakening of the, 11.
practice of the, during the Mid-
dle Ages by laymen, 26.
------ field of the, not limited to the
Church during the Middle Ages, 30.
------ united in the church edifice, 31.
------ change in character of the, 156.

B.
Battista d' Antonio, chosen to oversec
construction of dome in Florence, 251.
Beauty, mediæval ideal of, 28.
Beccafumi, Domenico, his pavement of
Duomo at Siena, 176.
Bocca degli Abati, his treachery, 119.
See Dante.
Boniface VIII., Pope, commissions
Charles of Valois to restore peace in
Florence, 196.
Brigata spendereccia, 157. See Dante.
Brunelleschi, Filippo, competes for the
making of the bronze door of the Bap-
tistery of Florence, 237 ; fails, 238 ;
his biographers, ib., note; leaves Flor-
ence for Rome, 239 ; gains a living as
goldsmith, 242 ; studies in Rome,
243 ; his repute increases, ib.; com-
petitor for the dome of the Duomo,
246 ; asks aid from Donatello, ib.;
assisted by Nanni d' Antonio di Bi-
anchi, 247 ; his model for the dome,
ib.; a committee appointed by the
Art of Wool to judge the model, 248 ;
description of model by, ib.; chosen
to oversee construction of dome, 251 ;
advice to the Board of Works, 255 ;
difficulties, 257 ; story of the egg, 258 ;
building of the dome assigned to, 259 ;
opposition to, ib.; Ghiberti and Bat-
tista d' Antonio appointed assistants,
260 ; grief and anger of, ib.; rivalry
with Ghiberti, 261 ; preparations for
building the dome, 262 ; determination

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