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Peleus, the artistic form of, 41. 
Penni, Gianfrancesco, 83, 109. 
Percier, a French artist, 113. 
Perino del Vaga, 83. 
Permoser, Balthasar, a German sculptor, 61. 
Persephone, or Proserpine, the artistic form of, 38. 
Persepolis, enumeration of sculptures from the 
ruins of, 5, 6. 
Persians, the, little known of the state of sculpture 
among, 5. : 
Perspective, pictorial, 146-150. 
Peter of Cortona, sketch of the life and works of, 
93, 94. 
Phidias, the works of, 17, 18; influence of the 
school of, 19; statue of Poseidon or Neptune 
by, 30. 
Phigalia, reliefs from the friezes of the temple at, 19. 
Pheenicians, the, little or nothing handed down of 
the sculptures of, 7. 
Piazetta, Giovanni Battista, 99. 
Pictures, various, of the ancient Egyptians de- 
scribed, 69 ; of the Etruscans, 70, 71; of the 
Greeks, 72-74 ; of the Romans, 75-77 ; almost 
entirely superseded by mosaics in the early ages 
of the Christian era, 77; of the thirteenth and 
fourteenth centuries, 80; by Raphael, 82, 83 ; 
by Giulio Romano, 83; by Sacchi and Ma- 
ratti, 84, 85; by Da Cortona, Bernini, and 
Mengs, 85, 86; by Leonardo da Vinci, 88; by 
Fra Bartolomee, 89 ; by Andrea del Sarto, 89, 
90; by Michael Angelo, 90, 91; by Cigoli, 
92; by Rustichino and Furini, 92, 93; by Peter 
of Cortona, 93; by Mantegna, 94, 95; by 
Titian, 95,96; by Tintoretto, 97,98; by Paul 
Veronese, 98; by Correggio, 99-101; by the 
Caraccis, 102-104; by Caravaggio, 105; by 
Guido, 106, 107; by Francesco Albano, 107; 
by Domenichino, 108 ; by Cignani, 108, 109 ; by 
Murillo, 110, 111; by Poussin, 113, 114; by 
Mignard, 114, 115; by Lebrun, 115, 116; by 
David, 117; by Gérard, 117, 118; by Girodet 
and Guérin, 118; by Wilhelm and Stephan of 
Cologne, 122, 123 ; by Wohlgemuth and Al- 
bert Diirer, 125 ; by Dietrich, 127; by Rubens, 
131; by Van Mieris and Kaspar Netscher, 132 ; 
by Van der Werff, 133. 
Pierre le Gros, a French sculptor, 58. 
Pietas Militaris, a sculpture of the time of Con- 
-stantine, 45. 
Pietro Perugino, 81. 
Pigalle, a French sculptor, the works of, 58. 
Pilon, Germain, a French sculptor, 57. 
Pinaigrier, a French freseo-painter, 112. 
Pinturicchio, Bernardo, 81. 
Pisano, or Pisanello, Vittore, an early Italian 
artist, 80. 
Plastics. See Sculpture. 
Pluto, the artistic form of, 38. 
Polychromes, Greek, of the time of Apelles, 73. 
Polycles, the reclining hermaphrodite by, 21. 
Polycletus, the sculptures of, 19. 
Polygnotus of Thasus, the first Greek painter of 
great reputation, 72. 
Pompeii, paintings found at, 75. 
Pordenone, Licinio, 97. 
Portrait-statues, of antiquity, 42 ; erected by Con- 
stantine, 45. 
Poseidon, the artistic form of, 30. 
Potter’s art, the, flourishing state of, at Corinth, 
in the early ages of Greece, 13. 
Poussin, Nicolas, sketch of the life and works of, 
113,114. 
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Prague school of painting, the, 122. 
Praxiteles, the works of, 21. 
Preti, Mattia, or I] Calabrese, 109. 
Primaticcio, Francesco, 102. 
Protogenes, a contemporary of Apelles, 73. 
Psyche, the artistic representation of, 36. 
Puccio Capanna, 87. 
Puligo, Domenico, 90. 
Pyromachus of Pergamus, 23 
Pythagoras, a Grecian seulptor, 17. 
Quercia, Jacopo della, principal works of, 51. 
Races, horse and chariot, as a subject for plastic 
representations among the ancients, 43. 
Raibolini, Francesco, 101. 
Raimondi, Mare Antonio, 102. 
Raphael Sanzio, sketch of the life and works of, 
81-83. 
Raphon of Eimbeck, 124. | 
Rauch, Christian, the works of, 62, 63. 
Relief, the connecting link between sculpture and 
painting, 4. 
Reliets, from the ruins of Persepolis, 5, 6; general 
features of Egyptian, 10; reliefs en creux, ib. ; 
early Greek, 13; description of the Theft of 
the Tripod and others, 16; from the Parthenon 
and the temple at Phigalia, 19; on the arch of 
Titus at Rome, 26; on Trajan’s column, 27; 
from a Christian sarcophagus of the fifth cen- 
tury, 47. 
Religion, subjects taken from, in ancient art, 43. 
Reni, Guido, 85. 
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 134. 
Rhea, the artistic form of, 37. 
Rhodes, the school of, 22 ; the colossus of, ib. . 
Rhecus the Samian and his sons, supposed to be 
the inventors of the art of casting in metal, 12. 
Rhyparography, or the painting of low life, 73. 
Ribera, Giuseppe, or Spagnoletto, 109. 
Ricciarelli, Daniele, 91. 
Richard, a Freneh artist, 118. 
Rincon, Antonio del, 110. 
Robert, a French artist, 119. 
Robusti, Giacomo, sketch of the life and works 
of, 97, 98. 
Roggi, an Italian sculptor, 56. 
Roman school, the, account of the principal artists 
of, and their works, 80-87. 
Romanelli, Francesco, 94. 
Romans, the, condition of the plastic arts among, 
25 ; sculptured gems and cameos, 26; sculpture 
during the empire, 26, 27; deterioration of art 
among, 27, 28; state of painting among, 74— 
dig: 
Roofs, the, of modern theatres, 190, 191. 
Rosa, Salvator, 109. 
Roselli, Matteo, 93. 
Rosso di Rossi, a pupil of Michael Angelo, 91. 
Rubens, Peter Paul, sketch of his life and account 
of his principal works, 130-132. 
Rural life, subjects from, frequent in ancient re- 
liefs, 44. 
Rusconi, an Italian sculptor, 56. 
Rustici, Francesco, or Rustichino, 92. 
Sacchi, an Italian painter, 84, 85. 
Salimbeni, the, 92. 
Salvi, Giambattista, an Italian painter, 85. 
Salviati, a pupil of Vasari, 92. 
Sanchez de Castro, a Spanish artist, 110. 
Sandal-tyer, the, in the Louvre, 41. 
