The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (62 page)

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winged lion of,
42–43
,
55
,
57

St. Paul the Martyr,
55

St. Peter,
96–97

St. Sigismund,
153–55

St. Symeon,
55

St. Theodore,
43
,
55
,
57

Saladin,
295

Salford,
219

San Gimignano,
135

San Miguel de Allende,
83

Santa Fé,
127

Saville, Peter,
224

Saxony,
182

Scarpa, Carlo,
9

Schabowski, Günther,
243–44
,
246

Scheerbart, Paul,
216

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich,
31–32
,
169
,
173–76
,
179–81
,
184–85

Scholl, Sophie,
31

Scotland,
25
,
100

Scott, Fred,
9

Sebrok, Abbot,
115
,
117–18

Segal, Rafi,
290

Seine, River,
198

Selim II, Sultan,
73

Serapis,
49

Serlo, Abbot,
109
,
118–19

Severn, River,
107
,
115

Seville,
129
,
140

Sèvres, Treaty of,
76

Sex Pistols,
224
,
229

Sforza, Francesco,
150

Shakespeare, William,
11

The Tempest
,
7–8

Shanghai,
7
,
263

Sharon, Ariel,
290

Sheba,
301

Sheffield, Park Hill estate,
218
,
221

Sicily,
83

Sidney, Philip,
97

Siena,
150

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor,
151
,
154

Silesia,
182

Sinai,
296

Sinan,
74–75
,
294

Sinatra, Frank,
263

Singapore,
270

Six-Day War,
288

Skelmersdale,
218

Slany,
83

Society of Dilettanti,
28

Socrates,
18

Solomon, king of Israel,
65
,
69
,
295
,
301

Sophocles,
18

Sophronius, Patriarch,
297

South China Sea,
277

Soviet Union,
181

see also
Russia

Spain,
68
,
127–29
,
143
,
318

reconquista
,
126–27
,
133

Spanish Inquisition,
294

Sparta,
152
,
165

Spree, River,
35

Sri Lanka (Ceylon),
15
,
128

Stalin, Josef,
184

Staunton, Abbot,
111–12
,
119

Stewart, Helen,
260
,
262

Stone, Sally,
9

stories,
11–12

Stuart, James.
See
Antiquities of Athens

Stuttgart,
185

Suleyman, Sultan,
72
,
74–75
,
294

Sulla, consul,
47

Sully, Maurice de,
201–4

Sweden,
247
,
252

Syracuse,
7

Syria,
46
,
142

 

T

Taut, Bruno,
216

Tersatto,
88
,
92–93

Thames River,
35

Themistocles,
32

Theodora, empress of Constantinople,
64
,
75

Theodosius I, emperor of Rome,
20
,
32
,
48
,
64

Thermopylae, Battle of,
20

Thokey, Abbot John,
107–10

Thomas of Cantebrugge,
117–18

Thomas of Canterbury,
116

Thucydides,
15
,
18
,
25
,
35

Thutmosis, Pharaoh,
49

Timbavati,
265

titanium,
35

Titus,
298–99
,
302

Tivoli,
141
,
175

Torcello, Rustico da,
50–51

Town, Ithiel,
5

Trelleborg,
247

Tresivio,
83

Troy,
22
,
46
,
105

True Cross, the,
90

Truman, Harry S.,
185

Tschumi, Bernard,
35
,
233

Tully, Robert,
117

Turkey,
78
,
284

Tuscan language,
157

Tuscany,
56

Tzara, Tristan,
224

 

U

Ukraine,
261

Umayyad dynasty,
140

UNESCO,
78
,
284–85

United Nations,
288

United States of America,
181

Ur,
300

Urbino,
150

 

V

Valhalla,
31

Valtelline,
83

Valturio, Roberto,
152
,
165

Venice,
12
,
24
,
40
,
43
,
49–58
,
66
,
165
,
175
,
294

Arsenale,
55

Basilica of San Marco,
9
,
42–43
,
51–52
,
55–56
,
81

Bucintoro
,
43

families of the Golden Book,
57

horses of San Marco,
41–43
,
47–48
,
55
,
57–58
,
66

Las Vegas and,
261–62
,
267–69

Marco Polo and,
258
,
270

Pala d’Oro,
42–43

Piazza San Marco,
57

Torcello island,
50

and tourism,
257
,
272–74

winged lion of St. Mark,
42–43
,
55
,
57

Versailles,
178
,
183
,
197

Via Flaminia,
161

Vienna,
29
,
35
,
69
,
182

Holy House of,
98

siege of,
129

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel,
9
,
15
,
189–90
,
193–94
,
197
,
201
,
203–6
,
209

Virgin Mary

and Gloucester Cathedral,
112

and Hagia Sophia,
63
,
66
,
78

and Holy Houses,
82
,
85–88
,
90–91
,
93–99

and Notre Dame de Paris,
191
,
196
,
201

Our Lady of Loreto,
98–100

Our Lady of Walsingham,
101

and Parthenon mosque,
23
,
125

Visigoths,
10
,
20
,
143

Vitruvius,
6
,
15
,
159–60

Vivaldi, Antonio,
268
,
272

Vivico company,
249–50

Vladimir, Prince of Kiev,
66

Voltaire,
177–79
,
199

 

W

Wales,
117

Walsingham,
83
,
93–97
,
100–101

Waqf, the,
285–86
,
288–89
,
293

War on Terrorism,
78

Warhol, Andy,
224

Warren, Charles,
292

Wars of Religion,
97

Warsaw Treaty,
236

Washington, D.C.,
247

Weizman, Eyal,
290

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