Morris, General, and "Old Morrisania," 184
Mosque; at Cairo, 123; minarets of same, 125; near Cairo, 125
Mosque of Cordova, 126; De Amicis, concerning, 126; naves of, 127; marbles of, 127; columns of, 127, 128
Mother of God, church of (Constantinople), 123
Munich; modern architecture of, 173, 174; church of St. Ludwig at, 175; Ruhmeshalle at, 176; glyptothek of, 177
Museum; of Berlin, 177; at Oxford, 170, 171
Napoleon I.; and pyramids, 3; tomb of, 158; inscription from will of, 158; Car of Victory, trophy of, 173
Nebuchadnezzar; and "Hanging Gardens," 30; and Birs-i-Nimrud, 32
Nero (Emperor), temple of Diana robbed by, 61
Newton, discoverer of sculptures at Halicarnassus, 70
Nineveh; walls of, 21; gateways of, 21; ornamentation of gateways of, 23; palaces of, 27
Obelisk; now in Paris, 13; at Alexandria, 15; Cleopatra's Needles, 15; expressing worship, 16; in Central Park, New York, 16; the Assyrian, 28, 29
"Odyssey," knowledge of Grecian history from, 47
Order. _See_ Gothic, Moresco or Moorish, Civil, Neo-Byzantine, _Neo-Grec_, Romanesque, Byzantine, Saracenic
Oriental art; characteristics of, 59; and the caryatid, 59
Painted glass and Gothic architecture, 100
Palace; of Khorsabad, 27; of Ecbatana, 34; of Susa, 34; of Artaxerxes Ochus, 38; of Darius, 38; of Xerxes, 38; of Diocletian at Spalatro, 86; of the Escurial, 147, 149; of Versailles, 162; of Whitehall, 166; of Hampton, 169; of Winchester, 169
Palaces; of Assyria, 23-26; of Nineveh, 27
Pantheon (Rome); 76-78; rotunda and porch of, 76; preservation of, 77; inscription on portico of, 77; burial-place of Raphael and Annibale Caracci, 78
Pantheon (Paris), 158; and _see_ church of St. Genevieve
Paris; rebuilt, 162; the boulevards of, 164; new opera house of, 180
Parthenon (Athens); 53, 54; built of Pentelic marble, 64; of Doric order of architecture, 64; erected under care of Phidias, 64; sculptures of, 64
Paul Silentiarius and description of St. Sophia, 120
Persepolis; great palace near, 36-38; spring residence of Persian kings, 42
Persia; inscriptions found in, 21; palaces of, 34; taught by Assyria and Babylonia, 34; platforms of, 36; regularity of architecture of, 43; faults of architecture of, 44
Phidias; and Athena Promachos, 62; Parthenon erected under care of, 64; sculptures executed by, 64