INDEX. 397 



France first arrived at the art of painting on glass. How, 28, 35, 36. 



chiefly supplies us with bronzes, 202. 



early threw off Byzantine influence in art, 99. 



Mosaic glass of, with Byzantine features, 34, 35. 



painted glass windows of, Theopliilus mentions, 27. 



Stained glass from Venice, or from Greeks, introduced into, 33. 



fell behind Italy in art in the 1300 and the 1400, 201. 



Sculpture of, in the 1200 as advanced as in Italy, 199. 

 Franciscans and Dominicans, patrons of Giotto andFra Angelico, 319. 

 French cathedrals, Statues of, 199. 



churches, Glass windows of, 28, 35, 38, 39, 44, 52, 53. 



style and design, Faults of, 201. 



Talent in design of the, 199. 



Skill of the, in drawing, 199. 



Taste of the, in colour, 78, 92. 

 Frescoes, to suit ornamentation of a building, 215. 

 Funereal monuments, Treatment of, 241, 242. 

 Furniture, Colours of, 110. 



of houses, 266, 269,270. 



Gable, False, of Italian churches, 349. 



ends of old houses in streets, 344. 

 Galleries and museums, &c, closed on Sunday, the only leisure day of the 



working classes, 194. 

 Gardens, Artificial, discarded, 14. 

 Dutch, 15. 



Proper form of, about the house, 346, 361. 



Adaptation of, to the peculiarities of the ground, 363, 366, 368, 369. 

 of box at Seville, &c, 370. 

 should conform to the style of the house, 365. 

 cannot be " natural," 362, 372. 

 Geometrical, or " dressed," 361, et seq. 

 Gaudy colours are really bright hues without harmony, 1, 2. 

 George III., Equestrian statue of, 238. 

 German churches, Glass in, 44. 



examples of colour not generally good, 22. 

 Notion about hatchments of a, 4. 

 spires, 340. 

 Germany. Works in gold and wood of, Theophilus mentions, 27. 

 Ghiberti, Gates of, 241. 

 Gilding, Much, tawdry, 107. 



Gin-palaces, allowed to be open on Sunday, not so museums, &c, 194, 195. 

 Giotto, The O of, 198. 



Giotto's chapel, at Padua. Ornamentation of, 269. 

 " Glas," blue in Welsh, 79. 



Glass (see Windows ; see Belgian ; see Flemish, &c.) 

 -blowing in Egypt about 2400 B.C., 31. 

 Coloured, in France (see French churches and Glass), 27, 28, 35, 38. 



a contrast to the white walls of a building, 25. 

 richly carved, Error of having, 2i5. 

 colourless, Panes of, 29, 32. 

 cup and metal stand, 221. 

 Designing on, 43, 44, 47. 

 Seeing through a, darkly, 32. 

 went from Egypt to Rome, to Constantinople, and to Venice afterwards, 



32. 

 Egypt famed for manufacture of, and story of Phoenician sailors, 30. 

 Lead-lines of windows, and mode of fixing the pieces of, 35, 

 mosaics and ornaments, 30. 



