INDEX. 



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Columns, Too great an admiration for useless, 341. 

 intended to support something, 342. 

 half, Admiration for, 342. 

 Colour, accidental, Supposed effect of an, 10. 



admired and disregarded by us in different places, 24. 

 -blindness, 2, 56. 



(see Balance of; see Harmony ; see Contrasts of), 

 of old necessary for architecture, 24. 

 ' The eye the best judge of, 4, 10, 57. ** 

 little appreciated by the English, 1. 

 and music only as a simile (see Newton), 6. 

 Death of a, 9. 



Lighter, used to brighten up a design, 104. 

 not pattern, the chief object in Arab carpets, 20. 

 Taste of Orientals in, 21. 

 Perception of, a natural gift, 23, 55. 

 Rules laid down hastily for, 35. 

 Theories on, 3, 5, 6, 7, 92. 



in gardens, and succession of flowers, 374 — 376, 379. 

 theory of one primary, 6. 

 Coloured designs on walls of a Gothic church to be subservient to the effect of 

 the ornamentation, 26. 

 glass windows, as a contrast to a white wall, have a bad effect, 25. 



not suited to Renaissance churches, nor to all Gothic 



buildings when painted, 26. 

 in France (see French and Glass), 

 glasses for lamps, 164. 

 Colours, Accidental, 10, 56, 58, 72, 73. 

 Arrangement of, 151 — 160. 

 in architecture used by the Greeks, 275. 



affect each other, as orange next to red looks yellow, and red inter- 

 woven with yellow looks scarlet, 101. 

 affected by arrangement, 111. 

 Agreement and disagreement of, 113. 

 in some tiles of the Alhambra, 134. 

 that are alone, or on a ground, or with others, 112, 113. 

 balanced, 77. 

 Blending of, 76. 

 Bright, in the designs of northern people, as Eskimos, Siberians, 



Chinese, &c, 23. 

 Bright, not necessarily gaudy, 1. 

 Some necessary conditions for, 164 — 166. 

 of the Eskimos, 12, 23. 

 Brilliant, in our flowers, 14. 

 by candlelight, 16, 19, 97, 101, 110. 



Ceilings appear to be raised or lowered by the effect of, 12. 

 Various combinations of, 131, 145. 

 Simultaneous contrast of, 102, 103. 

 Dark and light, 113. 

 to be distinct, 61, 62. 

 different by day and by candlelight, 16. 

 diminish or increase each other's effect, 10. 

 Effect of distance obtained by, 12. 



on each other, 59, 61. 

 Reciprocal effect of, 102. 

 Correct examples of, required, 2. 

 Experiments have no bearing on the harmony of, C. 

 of the Egyptians, 17, 132, 134. 



