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The Cathedral Builders

Book 4 — INDEX

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Abadia on Lake Maggiore, 114

Abbondio, S., bishop of Como, 34, 142

Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence, 280

Adelgiso, son of Desiderius, 56

Adrian I., pope, 403

Agilulf, king, marries Theodolinda, 33; shelters St. Columban, 86

Alachi, duke of Brescia, 47, 54

Alba Fucense, its pulpit, 238

Albertus Magnus, 12, 134, 137, 201

Alboin, enters Italy, 31, 32

Alexander II., pope, 226

Alfonso, duke of Calabria, 304

Alfred, king, founds Ripon cathedral, 150

Alphonso of Aragon, 419

Amalasunta, queen, her hospital, 107

Amantius, bishop of Como, 34, 78

Anagni, 410

Ancona, the Pieve at, 242, 243

Andrea Pisano, 211, 328

Andrea from Serra di Falco, 114

Annex, a German, 355

Anselberga, daughter of King Desiderius, 56

Ansige, abbot of Fontanelles, 103

Antelami (Magistri), 188, 189, 232, 424

Antonio di San Gallo, 416

Antonio, S., 200

Aquisgrana (Aix-la-Chapelle), the Basilica, 103

Arca di S. Agostino, 50, 202 et seq.

Arches, first pointed, 178, 179; cusped arch, 252

Ardoin, 128

Arezzo, its palace, 234

Aribert II., 46

Arichi, duke of Lombardy, 44

Arnolfo di Cambio, 224, 291, 313; his death, 325

Arte della Lana, 337, 343

Arte dei Maestri di Pietra, Senese, 286

Arte dei Maestri di Pietra, at Florence, 338, 343

Arte de' Medici e Speziali, 273

Arte degli Orafi, 339, 425

Arte della Seta, 338, 343

Arte dei tajapiere, Venice, 387 et seq.

Assisi, first parts Gothic, 252; painting, 272

Asteno, near Porlezza, its church, 184

Astolfo, king, 55

Autharis, king, takes Comacina, 28, 141; marries Theodolinda, 32; builds church of Farfa, 35

Ava, the Longobard, 285

Azzo Visconti, 381

Baptisteries, their form, 115

Barbarossa, Frederic, 116

Bargello at Florence, 61, 149

Barnack church, 149

Basle, Comacine work there, 135

Beneventum, dukes of, 114; cathedral of, 246

Benozzo Gozzoli, 276

Berengarius, the house of, 109

Bertharis, king, dethroned and recalled, 45; saved by his servants, 53

Bianchi and Neri factions, 236

Biscop (Benedict), abbot of Wearmouth, 150

Boniface, St., his mission to Germany, 133

Bradford-on-Avon, 149, 157

Bramante, 416

Bregno, Antonio, 393

Brixworth, 147

Broletto at Como, 382

Brunellesco, Filippo, 321; his dome, 340 et seq., 428

Buono, Giovanni, fights for Como, 116; his descendants, 233, 239

Buono (Maestro), 236, 237. See Gruamons, 393

Buschetto, 209 et seq.

Byzantine work, compared with Comacine, 75, 158

Cadoc, St., 147

Cambio, or Exchange, 315

Campione school, 196 et seq., 232, 352, 425

Carloman, 58

Casciano, San, near Florence, the pulpit, 225

Castel Capuana, 233

Castle of Branigola, 41

Castle of Perleda, 40

Castle of Tivoli, 260

Certosa at Pavia, 358 et seq.

Charlemagne, emperor, rebuilds Rome, 15; defeats Desiderius, 58, 97; takes Comacines to France, 105

Churches: S. Abbondio, Como, 84 S. Agatha al Monte, Pavia, 45 S. Agnese fuori le mura, 9, 97, 152, 403 S. Ambrogio, Milan, 83, 84; its pulpit, 88, 148; its atrium, 112, 147, 244 S. Andrea, Pistoja, 233, 249 S. Antonio, Padua, 199 S. Apollinare in Classe, 153, 157 Ara Cœli, 409 S. Bartholomew, Smithfield, 124, 125 S. Bartolommeo, Pistoja, 153, 230, 235, 249 S. Benigno at Dijon, 122, 123 S. Cassiano, near Pisa, 222 S. Clemente, panel of altar, 9; fresco, 10; door, 156; paintings, 266 S. Croce, 277, 333 S. Donato at Polenta, 92, 93 S. Donnino, near Parma, 181 S. Fedele, Como, 81, 104 S. Francesco at Assisi, 179 S. Fredianus, Lucca, 48, 49, 94, 246 S. Gemignano, Modena, 193 S. George, Brescia, 47 S. Giovanni in Borgo, Pavia, 42 S. Giovanni Evangelista Fuorcivitas, Pistoja, 223, 234, 236 S. Giovanni Laterano, 408 S, Giovanni e Paolo, Rome, 65 S. Giusto, Lucca, 244 S. Julia at Bonate, 40, 41 S. Lorenzo fuori le mura, Rome, 407 S. Lorenzo in Lucca, 99 S. Lorenzo, Verona, 96, 153 S. Marco dei Precipazi, 84 S. Maria in Cosmedin, 97-99, 404, 405, 411 S. Maria foris portam, 46 S. Maria dei Fiori, Florence, 312 et seq., 337 S. Maria Novella, Florence, 278 S. Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, 182 et seq. S. Maria Maggiore, Brescia, 47 S. Maria Maggiore, Toscanella, its pulpit, 89 S. Maria del Tiglio, at Gravedona, 40, 152 S. Martino at Lucca, 226 S. Michele in Borgo, Pisa, 223, 245 S. Michele, Lucca, 228, 243 S. Michele, Monza, 37 et seq. S. Michele, Pavia, 50 et seq.; its façade, 77-80 Monreale cathedral, 127 Or San Michele, Florence, 333 S. Paolo fuori le mura, Rome, 407 S. Paolo, Pistoja, 240 S. Pier Scheraggio, 91; its pulpit, 406 S. Piero in Grado, 37, 50; its foundation, 100; its form, 101, 173, 268 S. Piero Maggiore, Pistoja, 240 S. Pietro in Ciel d'oro, Pavia, 50 S. Pietro le Dome, Brescia, 47 S. Pietro di Monte Civate, 56 et seq. S. Prassede, 97, 148 SS. Quattro Coronati, 22 S. Salvatore, Pavia, 46 S. Sofia, Beneventum, 248 S. Sofia, Constantinople, 69, 70 S. Tommaso at Lemine, 41 S. Zeno, Verona, 95, 96, 111

Cimabue, 271, 274; his scholars, 275, 278, 323

Cione family, 331 et seq.

Clement VIII., pope, 418

Cloisters, San Lorenzo, Rome, 65; S. John Lateran, 66; Voltorre, 115; S. Zeno, Verona, 66

Colle in Val d'Elsa, 316, 318

Collegia, Romana, 7, 10, 11, 138 et seq., 403

Cologne, churches at, 136

Colonies, Lombard, in Sicily, 128, 129

Comacina island a refuge for Romans, 23

Comacine Masters, who they were, 5 et seq.

Comagene, now Eufratisia, 69

Como, a Roman colony, 5, 141; its antiquities, 25, 26; is besieged, 116; its war with Milan, 233; its cathedral, 381 et seq.

Confraternity of painters at Florence, 280

Constantine the Great, 53; his Basilica, 403

Constantinople, 142

Contract of apprenticeship, 292

Convents, Comacine, their form and style, 65

Corneto Tarquinia, 227; ciborium there, 238

Cortelona, Luitprand's villa, 54

Cosimo I., Grand Duke, 280

Cosimo Rosselli, 275

Cremona, its cathedral, 185, 186

Crosses: Bewcastle, 147 Clonmacnoise, 166 Collingham, 147 Kells, 166 Kirkdale, 147, 148 Whalley, 145 Yarm, 147

Cunibert, king, 47; goes to Lucca, 48; fights Alachi, 54; erects tomb to Theodata, 87

Desiderius, abbot, 114, 210

Desiderius, king, 55 et seq.

Diotisalvi, Pisan architect, 214

Donatello, 306, 337

Donnino, Borgo San, its church, 181

Duccio of Siena, 276

Edwin, king, builds York cathedral, 145

Eginbert, biographer of Charlemagne, 103

Eriprand, duke of Cremona, 45

Ermelind, queen, 87

Ethelred, king, rebuilt Oxford cathedral, 159

Fabiola, her hospice, 107

Faliero, Doge Marino, 390

Falleri, 409

Fermo cathedral, 190

Ferrara, its cathedral, 198

Fiesole destroyed, 14; its cathedral, 236

Filippo Maria Visconti, 382

Florence founded, 14; its baptistery, 213 note; its Duomo, 312 et seq.

Fontana family, 417 et seq.

Fontana, Giovanni, 258

Fontana, Melide, 258

Fortresses, Comacine, 66; Baradello, 68; Civita Vecchia, 416

Fortunato, patriarch, of Grado, 113; employs Comacines, 175, 176

France, Lombard architecture in, 131, 132

Francesco del Coro, 300

"Franchi Artefici," meaning of the term, 113

Frederic, emperor, 128, 318

Fredianus, S., bishop of Lucca, 48, 164

Freemasons in mediæval times, 12, 13

Freemasons, seventeenth century, Italian, 16 et seq.; English building Freemasons, 18

French Masters in Italy, 359

Frescoes, early Christian, 266 et seq.; Byzantine, 268; Tuscan, 405, 426

Galeazzo, Gian, 351 et seq., 358; his death, 364, 373, 381

Gastaldo, Grand Master, 86, 388 et seq., 424

Genseric destroys Roman churches, 403

German Masters in Italy, 320, 358, 360 et seq.

Germany, Lombard architecture there, 133 et seq.; its cathedrals, 216

Ghiberti employed at the Duomo, 341 et seq.

Ghini family, 331

Giotto, 278, 323, 326 et seq.

Giovanni da Gratz, 369

Giuliano da Majano, 414, 416, 419

Giunta di Pisa, 271; his scholars, 276

Glass, early manufacture of, 156

Grado, near Pisa, church at, 100 et seq.

Grado, near Venice, its Basilica, 113, 174

Greek Masters in Italy, 74, 273

Gregory, pope, 143, 144

Grimoald, duke of Beneventum, 45, 47

Groppoli, near Pistoja, its pulpit, 249

Gruamonte, 234 et seq.

Guazetta, 335

Guido da Siena, 272, 275

Guidotti dal Colle, 271

Guillaume, S., abbot of S. Benigne, 122, 126, 175

Gundeberg, queen, 42; builds churches, 42; her rings, and the ring fair, 43, 44

Gunduald, Luitprand's doctor, 54

Heinrich or Ulric of Gmunden, 361, 369, 374

Heinrich of Ulm, 361, 362

Hexham church, 150 et seq.

Honorius, Bishop of Canterbury, 145

Hospices, 106, 107

Iconoclastic edict, 73

Justinian, emperor, rebuilds Sta. Sofia, 69

Laborerium, 207: at Canterbury, in fourth century, 148 Certosa di Pavia, 376 et seq. Cremona, 186 Florence, 207, 319, 339; closed, 344 Lucca before 1000 A.D., 20 Milan in 1383, 20; fifteenth century, 355 et seq. Modena under the Campione Masters, 19, 195, 198 Parma in 1200 A.D., 19, 186, 189, 238 Pisa, 211, 214, 223, 231, 312 Pistoja, 190, 231, 233, 236, 238, 241, 247 Rome, 410 et seq. Siena and Orvieto, 285 et seq., 305

Leo III., the Isaurian, 73, 74

Leonardo da Vinci, 369

Lion of Judah, sign of Comacine work, 243, 244

Loggie (Lodges), 19, 61, 201, 208, 288, 305

Lombard colonies in Sicily, 128

Lombard kings, chronological table of, 30

Lombard Masters, table of, 31

Lombards in Rome, 412; in Venice, 386; Siena, 301, 305

Lombardi Solari family, 395 et seq.

Lorenzo il Magnifico, 280

Lothaire, bishop, his church of S. Zeno, 96

Lothaire, king, his wars, 108

Lucca, 225 et seq., 246

Luitprand, king, his laws for Comacines, 24, 44, 63 et seq., 160; his foot, 50; his churches, 50 et seq.

Magister, what the term means, 15; Arch Magister, 17; Magisters in Sicily, 129; Magistri frati, 200, 287; different kinds, 265

Magistri: Adam, atrium of S. Ambrogio, 112 Adam, de Arogno, 182 Agostino da Siena, 298 Albertinus Buono, 239 Albertus Buono, 239 Ambrogio Lenzo, 334 Andrea Fusina, 371 Andrea da Modena, 352 et seq. Andrea di Pisa, 211, 220, 224 Anselmo (Tedesco) da Campione, and Arrigo, Alberto, and Jacopo, his sons, 194 et seq. Antonio of Como, 260 Antonio Mantegazza, 378 Antonio da Padernò, 369 Antonio Rizo, or Riccio, 391, 392, 397 Apollonius, 273 Arnolfo, 224, 291, 313, 407 Auripert, a painter, 55 Bartolo Fredi, 276 Bartolommeo Buono, 253, 260, 390, 393, 398 Bartolommeo de Gorgonzola, 368 Bartolommeo di Pisa, bronze worker, 221 Beltramo, 413 et seq. Benedetto da Antelamo, 187, 188, 245 Bernardino da Bissone, 386, 391 Bernardo da Venezia, 374 Bertrando of Como, 260 Biduinus, 222 Bonaiuto di Pisa, 223 Bonanno, 220, 221 Bonino da Campione, 203 Buono, 236, 237, 238 Cellini, 239 Cimabue, 274 Cosmato, and his family, 409 et seq. Cristoforo Gobbo, 371, 379 Cristoforo Mantegazza, 378 Diotisalvi of Pisa, 214, 250, 291 Dolcebono Rodari, 368, 377 Enrico Buono, 239 Filippino degli Argani, 364 et seq., 366 Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 303, 370 et seq. Francesco Talenti, 328 et seq., 334 Franciscus da S. Simone, 276 Fredus, 183 Giacomo Dolcibuono, 370 Giacomo da Pietrasanta, 414 Giorgio degli Argani, 366 Giorgio da Iesi, 190 Giovan Antonio Amadeo, 370, 377 Giovanni di Ambrogio, 336 Giovanni Balducci di Pisa, 225 Giovanni Buoni da Bissone, 189, 233, 385 Giovanni Buono, 253; builds Ca d'Oro, 389 Giovanni da Campilione, 184 Giovanni da Carona, 366 et seq. Giovannino dei Graci, 363, 375 Giovanni di Lapo Ghino, 328 et seq., 334 Giovanni Pisano, 222, 224, 291, 293 et seq. Giovanni Solari, 377 Graci, 237; a later one, 291 Gufredo, 182 Guglielmo Tedesco, 220, 223 Guglielmo, his porch at S. Zeno, 112; façade at Modena, 196; at Ferrara, 198 Guidetto, his works at Lucca, 227-231 Guido da Como, 227, 249, 250 Guiniforte, 367, 378, 395 Jacobus Porrata, 186, 251 Jacopo da Campione, 257 et seq., 375 et seq. Jacopo Dagurro da Bissone, 261 Jacopo della Quercia, 298 et seq. Jacopo (Tedesco) da Campione, 197, 252, 294, 315 et seq. Jacopo da Tradate, 363; his sons, 364 Lando, 297 et seq. Lanfrancus, 115, 193 Lorenzo di Mariano, 302 Lorenzo de' Spazi, 382 Luca Fancelli, 369 Manfredo of Como, 260 Marco da Carona, 356, 358, 365 Marco da Frixone, 353 et seq. Martino di Giorgio da Varenna, 302 Matteo da Campione, 197, 363, 386 et seq. Niccolao Pela, 336 Niccolò Pisano, 211, 222, 247, 250, 291 Nicolaus, his porch at S. Zeno, 112; façade at Modena, 196; Ferrara, 198 Nino di Pisa, 224, 225 Pantaleone Buono, 393 Paolo da Campagnano, 260 Paulinus, 145 Paulus and his sons, 407 Philippus, an Englishman, 69 Piccone, 54 Piero di Beltrami, 301 Pietro di Apulia, 221, 247 Pietro Lombardi and his descendants, 395 et seq., 398 Pietro da Varese, 413 et seq. Rainaldo, 212 Rainaldus, sculptures façade of Pisa cathedral, 16 Ramo da Paganelli, 293 Roberto, 246 Simone da Arsenigo, 352 et seq., 354 Simone Talenti, 331, 336 Fra Sisto and Fra Ristoro, 125, 318 Tommaso di Como, 420 Uberto and his brother Pietro, 408 Ugone da Campione and his sons, 183 Urbano da Cortona, 306 Ursus, his ciborium, 85 Zeno da Campione, 363

Majorca, 213

Manfred, king, 318

Maniace, Lombard colony there, 128

Margaritone of Arezzo, 275

Maximilian, emperor, 138

Mellitus, the monk, 144

Michael Angelo, 416

Milan, its Duomo, 350 et seq.

Missions (early) to Normandy, 123 et seq.; to Germany, 133 et seq.; to England, 143 et seq.; to Ireland, 160 et seq.

Modena, its Duomo, 116, 193

Monasteries: S. Abbondio at Bercela, 54 S. Fredianus, Lucca, 48 S. George, 47, 48 Sta. Giulia, Brescia, 53 Monte Barro, 40 Palazzolo at Lucca, 54 Subiaco, 179

Monkswearmouth, Durham, 156

Monreale, its cathedral, 127

Monte Cassino, convent, 66, 114

Monza, its church, 380 et seq.

Mosques, El Haram and Amrou, 179

Murano, its church, 113

Mythic sculpture, 75, 80

Nanni di Banco, 337

Nicholas V., pope, 412

Nicknames, their common use, 235 note

Nino di Pisa, 225

Norman architecture, 123, 126, 130

Normans, their connection with Sicily, 121, 128

Oil paintings, 277, 418

Opera. See Laborerium

Orcagna, 329, 332 et seq.

Orseolo (Doge Pietro), 390

Orsino (Virginio), Duke of Bracciano, 304

Orso Orseolo, patriarch of Aquileja, 122

Orvieto, its Duomo, 224, 300 et seq.; Chapel of Three Kings, 301, 414

Otho, emperor, confirms Comacine privileges, 27

Otho, his decree, 27, 28; he conquers Italy, 109, 135

Otho Orseolo, Doge of Venice, 122

Padua, church of S. Antonio, 199, 237

Painters of the Guild, their secession, 265 et seq.

Palaces (private), Florentine, 258; Venetian, 260

Palace of Desiderius at S. Gemignano, 62, 257

Palace, Luitprand's, at Milan, 62

Palazzo Pubblico, 256; at Perugia, 257; at Todi, 257; at Udine, 258; Capodimonte, 421

Palazzo Vecchio (Florence), 61, 259

Palazzo Venezia (Rome), 415 et seq.

Palermo, its cathedral, 126, 213

Papal forts, 260, 261, 415

Parma, 238

Paulinus, assists St. Augustine, 145

Pavia, its church, 50, 77 et seq.; its castle, 202; its Certosa, 373 et seq.

Penna, inscription there, 191

Pepin, king, founds church of S. Lorenzo, 96

Peter Martyr, St., his tomb, 225

Piacenza, its walls, 106

Pisa, beginning of the Duomo, 173, 209 et seq.; baptistery, 214

Pistoja, 223, 225 et seq.; its baptistery, 240

Pius II., pope, 260

Pliny's villa at Como, 26

Prato, its Duomo, 229

Provveditore, his office, 208 et seq.; his books, 322 et seq.

SS. Quattro Coronati, 20; inscription to them, 21; sculptures representing them, 207; their fête, 289

Quercia, Jacopo della, 337

Rahere, founder of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield, 124

Rainaldo, Magister at Pisa, 211, 212

Raphael, 416

Ratchis, king, becomes a monk, 55

Ravenna, towers at, 153, 154

Richard, prior of Hagustald, 160

Richard II., of Normandy, duke, 123, 158

Roger I., duke, 126

Roger II., king of Apulia, 126

Rome, Comacine fortresses near, 260; Lombards in Rome, 412 et seq.

Rotharis, king, his laws, 5, 6, 160

Runic inscriptions, 148

Saints: Augustine, 143, 145 Boniface, 133, 271, 233, 239 Columban, founds convent at Bobbio, 86, 164, 167 Cumianus, his tomb, 86 Fredianus, 48, 164 Gregory, 264 Hugh of Lincoln, 143 Luke, the company of, 280, 332 Modwen, 143 Nilus, his letter, 81 Patrick, 163

Sansovino, Jacopo, 394

Saracenic architecture, 121, 177, 406

Saxon architecture, Book II. ch. iii.

Sculptured animals, their meaning, 72, 73

Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista, 396

Scuola di San Marco, 396, 399

Sforza, Francesco, 365, 367, 420

Sicily, the revival there, 126 et seq., 175, 406

Siena cathedral, 224, 285 et seq.

Sixtus IV., pope, 261, 416

Sixtus V., pope, 418

Solari family, 395 et seq.

Solomon's knot, its meaning and origin, 72, 82, 243

Spanish chapel, 278, 326

Statutes of the Masonic Guild in Siena, 287, 291

Steepleton church, Dorset, 149

Stilicho the Goth, his tomb, 89

Strasburg, Freemasons there, 137

Symbolism of the Comacine Guild, 71 et seq.

Talenti, Francesco, 328 et seq.

"Tedesco," what the word means in architecture, 216, 218

Theodata, her tomb at Pavia, 87

Theodolinda, her marriages, 32 et seq.; her churches, 37-40

Theodosius, his laws on building in marble, 81

Toller Fratrum, Dorset, 149

Tomb of: Can della Scala, Verona, 203, 204, 252 Cardinal Longhi degli Alessandri, 185 S. Domenico, Bologna, 223 Folchino de Schicci, 204 Gian Galeazzo Visconti, 254 Mastino II., dei Scaligeri, 253 The Bishop of Siena, 301 Theodoric at Ravenna, 218

Tommaso de Mutina (Modena), 275

Torcello, 73

Torriano family of Milan, 385

Toscanella, pulpit there, 89

Towers, Comacine, their form, 67, 153; San Marco, Venice, 233; round towers of Ireland, 161 et seq.; Pisa, 219, 220; Fiesole, 237

Trent, its cathedral, 181 et seq.

Turrisianus of Pistoja, 230, 238

Vatican, 414 et seq.

Vecchietta, 306

Venice, 8, 113; its fifteenth-century restorations, 385 et seq., 397

Verona fortified by Charlemagne, 106

Visconti family, 349, 364, 373 et seq.

Vitale, 300

Voltorre, its cloister, 115, 193

Wenceslaus, king, 350

Wilfrid, bishop of York, 150, 155

William of Normandy, 123

Winchester tower, 153

Zambono, northern Italian for Giovanni Buono, 237

Zohak, emblem of remorse, 79

Zurich, the Gross Münster, 135

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