INDEX. 



Accidental or complementary colours, 10, 56, 58, 60, 72, 73, 92, 104. 

 colours, Supposed harmony of, 92. s 

 Mistakes about, 56, 58, 92."'' 

 seen by the colour-blind, 56. 



mistaken, as red for green, and dangerous for signals, 56. 

 seen when the eye is fatigued, which is to be restored by 

 looking at the opposite colour itself, or atwhite light, 104. 

 Black and white, 72. 



not confounded, 56. 

 Achilles, Shield of, not described from a Greek model, 302. 

 Adaptability of materials for ornament, &c. (see Pictures), 215. 

 Alhambra Court at Sydenham, 152. 



Good specimens of colour in the, 109. 

 mosaics, 22. 



Colours of some tiles in the, 134. 

 coloured designs, the florid style, 154. 

 feathered scroll ornaments and geometrical rectilinear, 262. 

 Ancient models, Study of, beneficial rather than direct imitation of, 200. 

 Anglo-Saxon MSS., Figures in, copied from Pagan models, 310. 

 Colours in, 312. 

 Draperies in, 310 — 312. 

 Animals in silver, 229. 

 Apelles, Age of, 1 84. 

 Apulian vases, 180, 181. 



Arab coloured works, the colour not the pattern the chief object in some, 20. 

 patterns. Variety in, 216. 

 names of colours indefinite, 79. 

 Arabs did not colour according to theory, 7. 



if they coloured carpets according to a theory, would give up lively 



colours, 12. 

 Change in the taste of the, 21. 

 Glass windows of the, 29. 

 Arabia, fusible and chased work of, Theophilus mentions the, 27. 

 Arabic sentences and hieroglyphics, Imitation of, inconsistent, 234. 

 Arch, Invention of, uncertain 298. 



round, invention of the, 294, 298. 

 Segmental, generally disagreeable, 333. 

 supporting nothing, or thrust through the entablature, 334. 

 trefoil, Old instance of, 242 (note). 

 Arches. Bricks placed lengthways in the oldest, 197, 294. 

 False, of overlapping stones, 294. 

 of Greece, 297. 



pointed, Earliest, 290, 292, 293, 294, 296. 

 Architect, Buildings altered by another, 337. 



Architecture, The beauty of, may be understood by those who arc not archi- 

 tects, 357. 

 Colour in, 24. 



of details of, 96. 



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