404 INDEX. 



Pottery, Common, may be in better taste than Sevres porcelain, 170. 



Practice before theory, 179. 



Praxiteles, Age of, 185. 



Primary colours of the prism or rainbow, 66, 67, 69 (see Primary colours). 



Primaries should predominate, but not necessarily in all cases, 93. 



Profile not preferred by the Greeks, 276. 



Proportion, 180, 203, 204, 206, 341. 



symmetry, and symmetricality, 204. 



of different things varies, 205. 



Eules for, of geometrical figures, 205. 



of Greek and Lancet windows, very different, 205. 

 the pyramidion of an obelisk, 244. 



The Italians noted for, 183, 204, 349. 



Want of, 180, 181, 246, 248. 



Sense of, to be cultivated, 206. 



in design like time in music, 202. 



form, and colour, to be appreciated properly, 176. 



Perception of, a natural gift to be improved by study, 205. 



and symmetry, 205. 

 Proportions of colours (see Field's Chr. Eq.), 10, 146, 147, 149. 

 Saracenic domes, 206. 



vary in different objects, 205. 

 nature, 205. 

 Protestant sculptors and musical composers, 321. 

 Protestantism not an impediment to high art, 320, 351. 

 Public wanting in taste, 175. 

 Purchasers to blame rather than the makers for the abundance of works of bad 



taste, 359. 

 Purple, 68, 80, 86, 123, 141. (See also Addenda.) 

 in combination, 141. 

 blue, and claret, 123. 



Quantity of colours in combination, 105, 146. 

 Quiet colours, 1, 25. 



Rainbow, Colours in the, not necessarily used for ornamentation, 19. 

 Proportions of the colours in the, 10. 

 (see Primary colours of the). 

 Raphael ware, 213. 



Reasons to be given why a design is good or bad, 177. 

 Recreation for the working classes required in England, 195. 

 Red, 66, 82, 118, 138. 



in combination, 119, 138, 139. 



appears to come nearer to the eye in glass than blue, 12. 

 and blue costumes in landscapes, 24. 

 with purple, 101. 

 green, 100, 113, 118. 

 white, Proportions of, 149. 

 on green, blue, or orange, effect of, 10. 

 hair, Green softens the effect of, 62. 

 not in nature except in small quantities, 13. 

 Sea, No record of passage of the, in Egypt, 234. 

 Relief, Flat, 237. 

 Religion and art, 318 — 322. 

 Renaissance buildings have faults with some beauties, 353. 



churches did not require coloured glass windows, 26. 



Doubtful whether Christian sculpture was benefited by the, 200, 201. 



glass windows of the, 45, 55. 



