The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (60 page)

Martin, Dean,
263

Martoni, Niccolo,
22

Marx, Karl,
213–14
,
233
,
274

Maryland,
265

Matthews, Araminta,
247

Max of Baden, Prince,
184

Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor,
128

Mazar, Benjamin,
285
,
289

Mecca,
22
,
69
,
71–72
,
75
,
296–98

Ka’aba
,
71–73
,
77
,
296

Medina,
71
,
74
,
296

Medlock, River,
212

Mehmet II, Sultan,
23
,
32
,
69–71
,
73–76
,
78
,
125
,
142

Mellish, Robert,
218

Mesopotamia,
46

Mexico,
83
,
100

Michael Palaeologos, emperor of Constantinople,
66

Middle Ages,
11
,
81
,
105
,
118
,
125–26
,
135–36
,
143
,
160

Milan,
120

Milasci,
120

Millar, J. S.,
218

Milvian Bridge, Battle of the,
45

Minneapolis,
272

Mississippi River,
35

Modernism,
209
,
218
,
224
,
229
,
233

Moholy-Nagy, László,
224

Monaco,
247
,
251

Montefeltro, Federico da,
150

Moors,
127–29
,
133

Moorish musicians,
130

More, Thomas,
217

Moreton, Abbot,
115

Morosini, Francesco,
24

Morris, William,
205

Morritt, John Bacon Sawry,
26

Mortimer, Roger,
107–8

Morwent, Abbot,
115
,
118

Moscow,
173
,
247

Mount Moriah,
90

Mount Parnassus,
46

Mount Zion,
297

Muhammad, Prophet,
22–23
,
68–69
,
71
,
74
,
93
,
139
,
141

night journey,
296–98

Muhammed III, Sultan,
73

Munich,
29
,
185
,
274

Murad III, Sultan,
73

Murat, Sultan,
72

Mussolini, Benito,
295

Mustapha I, Sultan,
73

N

Naples,
7
,
56

Bay of,
174–75

Napoleon Bonaparte,
26–27
,
31
,
56–58
,
143
,
182
,
197
,
200
,
203

Nash, John,
212
,
220

Nashville, Tennessee,
15

Nasrid dynasty,
139–40

Nazareth,
284

Holy House of,
89–95

Nero, emperor of Rome,
20
,
47–49
,
56–57

Golden House of,
141–42

Nestor Iskander,
67

Netherlands,
128–29
,
133
,
143

New World,
127–28

New York,
269

Newton, Abbot,
119

Nicomedia,
89

Nishimura, Tokusen,
247

Noailles, Cardinal de,
200

Norfolk,
83
,
94
,
100

North Africa,
128
,
137

North Sea,
132

Northampton,
218

Notre Dame de Paris,
187–206

arcs boutants
,
202–4

conversion into republican temple,
199–201

eighteenth-century modernization,
201–2

and Hugo’s novel,
195–97

restoration,
193–94
,
201
,
203–6

Sully’s design,
201–3

Notre-Dame de Paris
(Hugo),
195–97

Nottingham,
206

Nuremburg trials,
233

O

Ocean’s Eleven
,
263

Oder, River,
182

Olympic Games,
48
,
228
,
249

Omar, Caliph,
297–98

oral tradition,
11

Orlando, Florida,
266

Orléans, duchesse d’ (Helen Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin),
197

Osman, tribe of,
69
,
73
,
77

Osric, prince of the Hwicce,
109

Otto, king of Greece,
30–32

P

Palermo,
29
,
35
,
173

Palestine,
53
,
89–90
,
94
,
99
,
281
,
289–92
,
298

Palestine Exploration Fund,
291

Palestinian Authority,
283–84
,
289–90

Paolo Veronese,
42

Paris,
35
,
41–42
,
47
,
177
,
213
,
274

Champ de Mars,
41

Galeries Lafayette,
206

Gare d’Orsay,
206

Île de la Cité,
200–201

Las Vegas and,
258

the Louvre,
29
,
35
,
41–42
,
57–58

Museum of Antiquities,
198

National Treasury,
199

Place du Carousel,
42

see also
Notre Dame de Paris

Paris Commune,
191
,
198
,
206

Parker, Abbot,
119

Parma,
152

Parthenon,
9
,
13–35
,
39
,
48
,
61
,
73
,
81
,
105
,
125
,
169
,
233–34
,
281–82

Byron and,
28–29
,
34
,
209

church of Holy Wisdom,
21–23
,
33

conservation,
34–35

earthquake,
33

explosion,
33
,
125
,
147

frieze sculptures,
19
,
22
,
24–30
,
35

hekatompedon
,
19
,
21

mosque,
21–24
,
33
,
125

parthenon
,
20

proportions,
35

restoration,
31–34
,
189

and souvenirs,
281

Pasti, Matteo de’,
145
,
153
,
155
,
160
,
162–64

Patten, Father,
100–101

Paul the Silentiary,
65
,
67
,
73

Pavia,
120

Pawlowski, Volker,
245–47

Pedro the Cruel,
129

Pennsylvania,
270

Pentelikon,
34

Pergamon,
70
,
72

Pericles,
15
,
18–19
,
32–33

Persia,
46
,
68–69
,
140

Persius, Ludwig,
180
,
184

Peter, Abbot,
109

Petronius,
152

Phantom of the Opera, The
,
271

Phidias,
19
,
21
,
27
,
31
,
33–34

Philip II, king of Spain,
143–44

Philip of Macedon,
45–46

Philip the Fair, king of Castile and León,
128

Philippa, queen of England,
111

Piero della Francesca,
154–55

Piraeus,
34

Pittsburgh,
272

Pius II, Pope,
149–50
,
165

Plataea, Battle of,
46

Plato,
18
,
22
,
25
,
33
,
105
,
125
,
152
,
217