"Spend it in some words upon that business."
To which he readily consents.
The "cursed thoughts," then, are connected with his dreams about the weird sisters.
At his next appearance the same thoughts agitate him in Macbeth's palace at Fores. His first words are in soliloquy
"Thou hast it now, king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promis'd; and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for 't: yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity,
But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If there come truth from them (As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine), Why, by the vericies on thee made good, May they not be my oracles as well,
And set me up in hope? But, hush! no more.'
When it is recollected that, after the scene on the heath with the soldiers, these are nearly all the words we have from Banquo, it seems to be pretty clearly indicated that his thoughts at least were not perfectly honest and what they should have been.
The weird sisters are but outward personifications of the evil thoughts conceived and fermenting in the brains of Banquo and Macbeth; both high in station, both generals in the king's army, both friends, and both nourishing evil wishes. They are visible only to these two friends; and though they are represented as having an outer existence independent of them, they are, metaphysically speaking, but embodiments of the hidden
thoughts and desires of Banquo and Macbeth; as such they are a new and terrible creation, differing from the vulgar flesh-and-blood witches of Middleton. They look not like the inhabitants of the earth; they vanish into thin air; wild, vague, mysterious, they come and go, like devilish thoughts that tempt us, and take shape before us, as if they had come from the other world. The devils that haunt us and tempt us come out of ourselves, like the weird sisters of Macbeth.
ACTORS, in England, 234-239. Adam, figure of, by Michel Angelo, 26.
Adriani, Giovanni Battista, letter of, to Vasari, 140.
Eschines, statement by, regarding Miltiades, 129, note.
Eschylus and Euripides, 30; quota- tion from, 206.
Agasias the Ephesian, 109. Agathenor, 94.
Ageledas, teacher of Polyclitus, 88. Agoracritos, 66, 67, 70; and Alcame- nes, 71; and Phidias, 72; statue of Nemesis, at Rhamnus, by, 70, 91. Ajax, the antique, 6.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 3, 8. Alcamenes, 55; the Venus of the Gar- dens, by, 68, 90; and Agoracritos, 71; and Phidias, 72, 96; high dis- tinction of, as an artist, 90; works in the Temple of Zeus, 93. Alcimus Avitus, quotation from his De Origine Mundi, 127. Alexander, taming Bucephalus, statue of, at Rome, 77, 78; praises Apelles and Lysippus, 131.
Alfieri, 8.
Ammonius, 108.
Anacreon, quotations from, 144. "Ancora imparo," a motto used by Michel Angelo in old age, 13. Androsthenes, 88, 92.
Angelo, Michel, 4-7; everything in Florence recalls, 8; his house, 8, 9; birth, 9; death, 10; early studies, 10; early efforts as a sculptor, 10; his Cupid and Bacchus, 10; his Pi- età, 11, 20; colossal figure of David, 11, 20; Sistine Chapel, 11; the Moses, 11, 20; Medici Chapel, 11; Pauline Chapel, 11; the Last Judg- ment, 11; sculptor, painter, archi- tect, engineer, and poet, 11, 43; erection of St. Peter's, 11; his cir- cumstances and characteristics, 12; always learning, 13; his later po-
etry, 13; his power as a sculptor, 13, 20, 39; his great works in the Medicean Chapel, 13-21; meaning of his statues of Day, Night, Aurora, and Crepuscule, 16-18; quatrain by, 17; influence of Savonarola and Dante on, 17; his works bad models for imitation, 20; figure of Christ by, in the Church of the Minerva, 20; his struggles against ill-health and overwork, 20, 21; his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, 21-29; Bra- mante's jealousy of, 21, 22, 24; Pope Julius II. strikes him with a cane, 25; his extraordinary rapidity in working, 25, 26; greater as a painter than as a sculptor, 26; of heroic spirit, 29; fragments of letters by, 30, 36; Raffaelle and, 30-33, 35; an- ecdote of, 32: personal character- istics of, 33, 34; and Vittoria Co- lonna, 34; extract from a sonnet by, 34; Dante the favorite poet of, 35; Savonarola the friend of, 35; originality of, 35; devotion to his family, 36; generosity of, 36, 37; violent temper of, 33, 37; patience of, 37; difficulties under which he labored, 37, 38; described by Vige- nero, 38; the impatience of his gen- ius, 39; appointed architect of St. Peter's when sixty years ol', 39; Palazzo Farnese, the Church of Sta. Maria degli Angeli, and the Lauren- tian Library, designed by, 41; not responsible for St. Peter's as it now stands, 42; poetry of, 42, 43; trained in all the arts, 43; the greatest mon- uments of his artistic power, 44; enduring kingdom of, 48; popular errors about, 49, 50, 69; compared with Phidias, 79, 80.
Antenor, the first maker of iconic statues, 129. Antoninus Pius, 230. Apelles, and Alexander, 131; praised by Nicephorus Chumnus, 132; price
paid for one of his portraits of Al- | Aurora, figure of, by Michel Angelo, exander, 132; portraits of Campas- pe and Phryne by, 132; story about, by Pliny, 132.
Aphrodite Urania, chryselephantine statue of, by Phidias, 53, 58. Apollo, the Temple of, at Phigaleia,
Apollodorus, 182. Apollonius, 169.
Appian hymn, the, 206.
Arcesilaus, sketches by, 135; price received by, for a drinking-cup, 170; for a statue of Fabatus, 170, 176. Aretino, 3, 8.
Arezzo, discoveries at, 178. Arezzo, Guido di, 4.
Argos, the Temple of Juno at, 53. Ariosto, 3; Dante and, 30; lively spirit of, 42.
Aristotle, distinction drawn by, be- tween Phidias and Polyclitus, 99- 102.
Arrian, cited, 66, 70.
Art, death-blow of pagan, 1; Christi- anity and, 1; and religion, 2, 4, 208; the golden age of Italian, 4; spirit of Greek and Roman, 19; ancient works of, difficulty of determining authorship of, (9; the toreutic, 100; the productions of, always show the true spirit of religion among any people, 208; and nature, 232, 233. Artemisia and Mausolus, 132. Arts, all, aid each other, 43. Athena Areia, statue of, by Phidias, 53, 58; its height, 62; described, C5.
Athena Lemnia, statue of, by Phidias, 62; beauty of, €5. Athena of the Parthenon, chrysele- plartine statue, by Phidias, 50-68, 82, 83, 97, 98, 111, 209, 210. Athena Promachos, the, cast from spoils taken at Marathon, 59; its height, 62, 64. Athenagoras, cited, 66, 70. Aulus Gellius, definition of "facies" by, 121. Aurelius, Marcus, the Meditations of, 190-193, 228; how the Meditations were written, 191; no book of an- cient literature higher and purer, 192; his dust, 192; a conversation with, 193-230; Jesus of Nazareth reverenced by, 199; supposed ideas of God held by, 199-202; cannot un- derstand modern pronunciation of Latin, 217; purely a Stoic, 220; did not persecute Christians, 220; let- ters of, on the proper treatment of one's enemies, 228.
14-21. Ausonius, cited, 68.
Baldi Chapel, the, 7. Bargello, the, 6. Bartolommeo, Fra, 31. Baruch, cited, 150. Batrachus, 107.
Beethoven and Mozart, 30. Bembo, 4.
Berlinghi, family of the, 10. Bibbiena, 3.
Biblical history, in Michel Angelo's frescoes, 28, 29. Boccaccio, 3. Boiardo, 3.
Borgia, Lucrezia, 264.
Bostick and Riley, translation of Pliny by, 135.
Bramante, instigates Pope Julius II. to summon Michel Angelo to Rome, 21; jealous of Michel Angelo's fame, 22; tries to induce the Pope to dis- charge Michel Angelo, 24. Brass-casting, decline of the art of,
Brick, printed on by the ancient Ro- mans, 167. plaster
British Museum, so-called casts in, 164, 165. Bronze statues, the method of the an- cients in casting, 142. Browning, Robert, 233. Browning and Tennyson, 30. Brunelleschi, 5, 6, 8, 40; designs Church of San Loren: 0, 13. Brunn, Dr., cited, 59, CO; on Pliny's Natural History, 120, 137-139. Bryaxis, 68. Buggiardini, 21.
Buonomini, Michel Angelo's father one of the twelve, 10. Byzantine tradition, 4.
Callicrates, and the Parthenon, 51, 52. Callimachus, nicknamed, 130; drill supposed to have been invented by,
Cambronne, 74. Campaspe, portrait of, by Apelles, 132.
Canossa, the Counts of, 10. Canova, opinion of, as to the use of proportional compasses by ancient sculptors, 171.
Caprese, birthplace of Michel Angelo,
Carmine, Church of the, 7. Carpion and the Parthenen, 51. Carrara, Michel Angelo at, 37. Casting, from life or from the round,
difficulties of, 159, 160; distinction between, and modeling, 155, 161. Casting in plaster, alleged practice of, among the Greeks and Romans, 115-189; introduced by Verrocchio, 188.
Casts, plaster, not found in ancient
houses or tombs, 157, 158, 176, 177. Cato, book published by, 167. Catulus, 67.
Cellini, the Renaissance Perseus of, 6; accomplished in many arts, 43. Ceres, the Temple of, at Eleusis, 52, 53.
Chalcosthenes, executed works in baked earth, 148.
Changes, only gradual, do real good, 197.
Christ, and Communism, 222, 223; ex- ample of, not always followed by Christians, 226. Christianity and Art, 1.
Christians, not persecuted by Marcus Aurelius, but punished as Commun- ists, 220-222; attitude of, toward the government, 221, 227; theory and practice of, 225, 226.
Cicero, Demosthenes and, 30; on the meaning of vultus, 121; quoted, 125, 134, 141, 149, 152. Cimabue, 4.
Clay, not a material for casting, 134; why used by the ancients instead of gypsum, 158, 159.
Clemens Alexandrinus, cited, 68. Colonna, Vittoria, and Michel Angelo, 34.
Communists, the early followers of Christ were, 222. Compasses, proportional, used by an- cient sculptors, 171, 172. Condivi, doubtful assertion of, 25. Cooke, a safe guide for the tragic ac- tor, 236.
Copies, exact, not made by ancient sculptors, 174-176. Corœbus, begins the Temple of Initia- tion at Eleusis, 52.
Creed, every religious, should be liv- ing, 196.
Crepuscule, figure of, by Michel An- gelo, 14-21.
Ctesilaus, 67, 97; compared with Phid- ias, 96.
Cydon, competition of, with Phidias, 97, 98. Cymon, 67.
| Dallaway, cited, 109. Damophilus, 117, 146. Daniel, Michel Angelo's figure of, 27. Dante, 3, 5, 6, 8; his influence on Michel Angelo, 17; and Ariosto, 30; the favorite poet of Michel Angelo,
David, Michel Angelo's statue of, 8, 11.
Day, Michel Angelo's colossal figure of, 14-21.
Deity, figure of the, by Michel An- gelo, 27.
Delacroix and Ary Scheffer, 30. Delphi, group of statues at, 59, 60, 62, 64, 121.
Demetrius, on the work of Phidias, 81; introduces the realistic school of portraiture, 130. Demosthenes and Cicero, 30. Devils, the, that haunt and tempt us, come out of ourselves, 286. D'Hancarville, cited, 109. Dibutades of Sicyon, 137-139. Diocletian, ruins of the Baths of, 41. Diodotos, 70.
Dion Chrysostomos, on the style of Phidias, 81.
Dionysius of Colophon, 132. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the art of Phidias, 81, 102; on the works of Polyclitus, 89. Dives and Lazarus, 223. Dolls, ancient, 166.
Drama, reaction in the, against con- ventionalism, 233.
Drill, the, supposed to have been in- vented by Callimachus, 171. Dryads, 1.
Dust of the dead, 192. Duty, the, of considering adverse doc- trines, 224, 225.
Ectypa of baked clay, 156. Eleusinian mysteries, meaning of the, 217, 218.
Eleusis, the Temple of Initiation at, 52; the Temple of Ceres at, 52. Elgin marbles, the, 49-114. Elis, work of Phidias at, 53, 54. Elpinice, portrait of, by Polygnotus, 132.
Epicurus, the face of, carried about by the Romans, 150.
Equanimity, the last watchword given by Antoninus Pius, 230. Erechtheum, the, 94.
Esaias, Michel Angelo's figure of, 27.
Cyrenaica, the, fragments of figures Euphranor, 73. from, 164, 165.
Euripides, Aschylus and, 30; on the immensity of God, 206.
Dedalus, statue to Hercules by, 182, Ezekiel, Michel Angelo's figure of, 186.
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