imits, i. 255; cannot
be overcharged if good, i. 406.
Oxford, system of education at, i. 391.

P

Paganism, revival of its power in modern times, iii. 105, 107, 122.
Painters, their power of perception, iii. 37; influence of society
on, iii. 41; what they should know, iii. 41; what is their business,
iii. 187.
Palace, the Crystal, merits of, i. 409.
Palaces, Byzantine, ii. 118, 391; Gothic, ii. 231.
Papacy. See "Popery."
Parapets, i. 162, ii. 240.
Parthenon, curves of, ii. 127.
Patience, how symbolized, ii. 334.
Pavements, ii. 52.
Peacocks, sculpture of, i. 240.
Pedestals of shafts, i. 82; and see Venetian Index under head
"Giorgio Maggiore."
Perception opposed to knowledge, iii. 37.
Perfection, inordinate desire of, destructive of art, i. 237; ii.
133, 158, 169.
Perpendicular style, i. 190, 253; ii. 223, 227.
Personification, evils of, ii. 322.
Perspective, aerial, ridiculous exaggerations of, iii. 45; ancient
pride in, iii. 57; absence of, in many great works, see in Venetian
Index the notice of Tintoret's picture of the Pool of Bethesda, under
head "Rocco."
Phariseeism and Liberalism, how opposed, iii. 97.
Philology, a base science, iii. 54.
Piazzetta at Venice, plan of, ii. 283; shafts of, ii. 233.
Pictures, judgment of, how formed, ii. 371; neglect of, in Venice,
ii. 372; how far an aid to religion, ii. 104, 110.
Picturesque, definition of term, iii. 134.
Piers, general structure of, i. 71, 98, 118.
Pilgrim's Progress. See "Bunyan."
Pine of Italy, its effect on architecture, i. 152; of Alps, effect in
distance, i. 245. See "Fir."
Pinnacles are of little practical service, i. 170; their effect on
common roofs, i. 347.
Play, its relation to Grotesque art, iii. 126.
Pleasure, its kinds and true uses, iii. 189.
Popery, how degraded in contest with Protestantism, i. 34, iii. 103;
its influence on art, i. 23, 34, 35, 384, 432, ii. 51; typified in
ornament, i. 316; power of Pope in Venice, i. 362; arts used in
support of Popery, ii. 74.
Porches, i. 195.
Portraiture, power of, in Venice, iii. 164.
Posture-making in Renaissance art, iii. 90.
Prayers, ancient and modern, difference between, ii. 315, 390.
Pre-Raphaelitism, iii. 90; present position of, iii. 168, 174, 188.
Pride, how symbolized, ii. 343, iii. 207; of knowledge, iii. 35; of
state, iii. 59; of system, iii. 95.