The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (61 page)

Ple
nik, Jože,
9

Pliny,
134
,
160
,
175

Plutarch,
19
,
25

Pod
brady,
83

Poland,
182

Polo, Marco,
258–60
,
270
,
276

Pompadour, Madame de,
179

Pompeii,
175

Pontius Pilate,
90

Portugal,
128

Poseidon,
17
,
24
,
27

Potsdam

Babelsberg,
174
,
181

Cecilienhof,
181
,
185

Charlottenhof Palace (Siam),
173–76
,
180
,
183
,
186

Friedenskirche,
183

Neues Palais,
179
,
184
,
186

Nikolaikirche,
185

Pfingstberg,
180

Sans Souci palace,
31
,
176
,
186

Schloss Glienicke,
174

Stadtschloss,
185

Potsdam Conference,
181
,
184–85

Prague,
83
,
97–98
,
182

Prague Spring,
234

Proclus,
17–21

Procopius,
65

Protestants,
98
,
291–92

Prussia,
31
,
174
,
176–77
,
180–83

Ptolemy,
142

Puck, Wolfgang,
271–72

punk rock,
224–25

Pythagoras,
162

Q

Qian Qichen,
259–61
,
263–64
,
266–67
,
269–70
,
274–76

quadriga
(bronze horses),
44–47
,
49
,
55
,
57–58

Quaye, Finlay,
225

Quebec,
83

R

Ramsay, William,
116–17

Raphael,
42
,
134

Ravenna,
164

Red Forts,
140

Redditch,
218

Regensburg,
15
,
31
,
294

Regius Manuscript,
118

Renaissance,
6
,
11
,
15
,
39
,
125–26
,
134
,
147–49
,
158
,
189
,
257

Republic
(Plato),
217

restoration, principles of,
205–6
,
209

Reuveni, David,
294–95

Revett, Nicholas.
See
Antiquities of Athens

Rheims Cathedral,
194

Richard II, king of England,
113

Richeldis de Faverches,
94–97
,
100–101

Riegl, Alois,
9

Riga,
247

Rimini,
149–54
,
160–62
,
164–66

Castel Sismondo,
154

church of St. Francis,
151
,
153
,
155
,
160
,
163
,
166

chapel of St. Sigismund,
153–55
,
160
,
163

Famous Temple of,
148
,
150
,
160–66
,
169

Roman harbor,
164

Röber, Jacqueline,
248–49

Robinson, Edward,
291–92

Roman Catholic Church,
63
,
98
,
101

Roman Empire, fall of,
67–68

Rome,
27
,
40
,
45
,
47–48
,
89
,
97
,
99
,
143
,
166
,
185
,
209

Arch of Constantine,
45

Arch of Titus,
45
,
299

and architecture,
134–35
,
158

burning of,
47

Capitoline Hill,
45
,
48

Colosseum,
45
,
178

Field of Mars,
41
,
46–48

Forum,
45
,
151
,
169

Forum of Trajan,
61

and Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia,
175
,
180

gardens of Maecenas,
153

Golden House of Nero,
141

Las Vegas and,
269

and literature,
152

mausoleum of Augustus,
48

Napoleonic conquest,
41–42
,
56
,
58

Nero’s arch,
49

Palatine Hill,
45
,
141–42

Pantheon,
7
,
158
,
161–62
,
286

Papal Curia,
149–53
,
156
,
158
,
165
,
176

ruined city gate,
161

sack of,
61
,
143

St. Peter’s Basilica,
74

Santa Maria in Cosmedin,
7

Senate House,
48

Tarpeian rock,
45

temple of Jupiter,
45
,
48
,
169

temple of Vesta,
48

Theatre of Marcellus,
61

Triumphs,
44–45
,
48
,
299

Vatican,
29
,
42

Via Sacra
,
45

Villa Medici,
180

Romulus and Remus,
44

Ross, Diana,
277

Rossi, Aldon,
8

Rothschild, Baron Edmond de,
293

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
199

Rumburk,
83

Rumi,
68–69

Rumpelstiltskin,
12

Ruskin, John,
9
,
205

Russia,
175
,
182
,
184

see also
Soviet Union

Russian Revolution,
216

S

Saduddin,
73

Sahara Desert,
69

St. Agatha,
55

St. Anastasius,
55

St. Anne,
85
,
192

St. Barbara,
111

St. Claudia,
50–51

St. Cyprian,
23

St. David’s,
117

St. Dionysios,
23

St. Francis,
151

St. Helena,
23
,
55
,
89–91
,
94

St. Joachim,
85

St. John the Baptist,
55

St. Joseph,
90

St. Justin,
23

St. Lawrence,
143

St. Lawrence River (Kaniatarowanenneh),
84
,
99

St. Lucia,
55

St. Luke,
23

St. Maccabeus,
23

St. Makarios,
23

St. Mark the Evangelist,
42
,
50–52