Index
Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed. Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.
12th dynasty, p206
1760 Synod, p201
A
Aachen Minster, p200
Abyssinian, cult buildings of, p209
acanthus, p215, and shoots (chisel & drill), p212
Acropolis (Pericles), p207
Aegean, islands & promontories of, p203
Aeschylus, p206
alchemy, p183
Alexandria, Egypt, p208, Byzantine (450 AD), p206
altarpiece, and to oratorio, p187, p203
Amida, p209
Anglo Saxon missionaries, p187
angular pillars (pyramid temple Chephren), p203
anti-plastic, p215
Antinous statues, p216
Antioch, Byzantine (405 AD), p206
Aphrodisias Caria, temple of, p210
Apocalyptic poems, p214
Apollonian, p183
Appolodorus, p211
apse, p210
arabesque, p183, p196, p207, as ornamentation, p212, p215
Arabia, south, p208
Arabian (Early-Christian Byzantine) cupola-church, p200, and state, p212, art, p207, Aramaean vine & palm, p215
Archaic sculpture and feet, p184
architrave and column, p200
Armenia, p208
astrology, p183
Athtar, temple of (S Arabia), p210
Attic tragedy (relief & recovery), p203
augurs, p185
Augustan temple, p210
autumn of the style, p207
avenues of sphinxes and statues, p202
Axum, Ethiopia, p208
B
Baal cults, p209
Baalbek, Sun temple of, p210
Bach (art of the Fugue), p183
Bachofen (quoted), p188
Baldur, p187
baroque, dynasties of, cabinet diplomacy of, p183
barrel vault (roofing), p184
basilica, p200, p209, of Maxentius (aka Basilica of Constantine), p212, roofing, p184, Eastern, p199
Baths, p212, of Caracalla (domed chamber), p211
Beatrice, of Dante, p183
Berengar of Tours, p185
bizarrerie, p215
body, p189
Book of the Dead, p188
Bramante, and St Peters, p184
broad plains of Franconia, Saxon & Burgundy (map), p203
bull tablet (1st Dynasty, Egypt), p200
burked, p204
burning the dead, p185
Byzantium 900 AD, p207, 208, and cathedral, p213
C
Calchas, p185
Caliph, p212 and caliphate as characteristic of Magian Culture, p183
cantata & Mass, p187
Carolingian period, p196, Empire, p216, and early Romanesque (ornamentation + figure), p212
Carstens, p212
catacomb painting, p206
Cathedral (depth experience) , p184, of Florence, p184
cella, p184
Celtic, p215,
Celto-Germanic, p193
Chephren, tomb of, p196
Chinese Culture, gardening, landscape p190, garden architecture, p203
choir, p210
Chorus, p191, and date, 213
Chosroes-Nushirvan, p203
Chou period, early, p196
Christian, early, p207, 208, Christian/late Classical (ornamentation + figure), p212; religions, p183, hymnology of the
south, p185
Church Councils, p216 of Ephesus, p209; of Chalcedon, p209
Cimabue, p192
Classical period, late p208, and Pseudomorphisis, p209, and deities, of early Empire, p187, and unit-motive, p196,
renunciation of space, p184, relief, figures, p184, monolithic column, p214, basic form of architecture, p215
Classicism, p197, p207
Clunic reforms, p185
cognate, p206
colonnades of the early period, p202
Colosseum (3 rings), p204
conspectus, p208
consul-statues in the Capitoline Museum, p216
Corinthian capital, p204
craft art of Byzantine-Islamic style, p215
Crusaders, p213
cupolas, p184
Cynics, p203
D
dance of boors, p195
David, p212
Deism (of 18th century Faustian Culture), p187
Descartes (analysis of space), p188
dogma, Catholic versus Protestant, p183
Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem.)
domed basilica of Byzantium, p211, of Russia, p211
domical churches (Constantinian), p206
Doric peripteros, p184, geometric, early and Minoan, p184, and Etruscan temple types 650 BC, p185, spring (period),
p213, use of Egyptian elements, p213
Didymaeum of Miletus, p204
Dies Irae, p185
difficulty… of triglyphs & metopes, p204
Diocletian’s dispensation, p212
Dionysiac intoxication, p204, musical hostility to Apollonian Doric, p206
Diophantine mathematics, p213
Dipylon vases, warrior figures of, p196
Dresden, p207, shepherds, p207, Zwinger, p207
drill, the, p216
duality, p187
E
East, p216
East Aramean Persian style, p211
Easter scene Faust I, p186
Eastern border of the Empire, p208, and marches (of Roman Empire), p213
eclectic, p207
Edda (of the 9-11 centuries), p187 and figures of, p187, of the north, p185
Edessa, p209
Egyptian Culture (relief & painting), p189, ram & sphinx avenues, p189, relief work (3rd to 5th dynasties), p189, relief
work of 5th dynasty, p206, flat-relief, p202 date, p213, and plant column, p214, old kingdom tomb temples
p189
Egyptian Middle Kingdom, p206
Egyptian Empire modes of the north, p207
elective affinity, p201
Empire of Charles V, p213
endless space, p189
English colonial empire under Cromwell, p213
Epicurus, p203
Epos, p193
Erecththeum, p205, p207
Eroica, p199
Etruscan templum, p185
Eucharistic controversy, p185
Euclidean feeling, p 185, form, p187, existence, p214
Excellsior, p184
extension, p214
F
Fathers, the, p214, and Paradise of, p186
Faust, p186,
Faust II, last lines, p183
Faustian basic form of architecture, p215 Faustian, date, birthplace, p183
form-domain, p205
Frankish, p215
Freiberg Cathedral (dominate Gothic feeling), p213
Freya, p187
G
Galileian dynamics, p183
Gallienus, p211
Gawan, p186
genus, p206
Germans of the migration, p186, southern castles (staircase), p205
Gernrode Church, p196
Ghassanids, p215
Giotto, p192, character, p212
glass –picture of Gothic cathedrals, p214
Gnostics, p214
Gods of India (Vedic), p187
Gorgias, p207
Gothic thrust system, p188, consecutives Church music, p188, cathedral, p196, late work in Rococo, p202, high
century (3rd), p214
Grail legend, p213, Holy, p186
Granada, p216
Greek city states, p183
Guardi, p207
H
Haigia Sophia, p184, p200, as mosque, p211 acanthus, p215
Hamlet, p186
Hansa in Baltic, p213
Hauran, p210
Hayden, p207
Hellas architecture (600 BC), p206
Hellenistic megalopolis, p207
Hildesheim cathedral, p196, p206
Hohenstaufen in Sicily, p213
Homeric hexameter, p186
horseshoe arch, p213
Hwang Ho, p203
hymn-strophe, p196
I
Iamblichus, p216
iconoclasm, p188, of Byzantium (7th century), p188, of Islam (7th century), p188, of Protestant North, p188
Imperial Fora (its master mason), p208, p212, p215, p216
Impressionism, p184
intercolumniations, p204
Ionic to Corinthian, p197
ipso facto, p197
Isis, p213
Islamic art, p208
Issus, battle of mosaic (Naples), p214
J
Jewish religion, p183, ornamentation, p215
Justinian I contemporary of Spanish Venetian Baroque of Charles V Philip II, p207
K
kokoshniks, p201
L
Lanfranc, p185
lateral depth, p200
Leer, p183
Leitmotiv, p215
Lombard, p215
Lorrain (Claude), p184
Lucca, p216
lunettes, p199
Lysicrates, monument of (acanthus leaves), p215
M
macrocosm, p214
Madonna ideal, p183
Magdeburg Cathedral, p205, and dominate Gothic, p213
Magian Culture, birth place, and number, p183, religion, p187, soul, p214
Mainz Cathedral choir, p205
Manicheans, p214, 209, religion, p183 architecture of, p211, p215
Mannerism, p197
Marcus Aurelius, p213
Marienkirche (Castle of Wiirzburg), p201
Marna-temple, pagan, p211
Mars Ultor, p215
Mashetta, Moab, castle facade, p215
Mathew Passion, p199
Mauro-Byzantine, p212
Mayan art, p196
Mazdaist fire-temple, p209, architecture of, p211, Mazdaism, p216
mechanical statics, p183
Media vita in morte summa, p186
Megalopolis, p192, p211, and naturalism, p212
Meister Eckert Meister Eckhart mysticism (dominate Gothic feeling), p213
Merovingian age, p186
Mesopotamia, fire temples of, p210
Mexican architecture, p204 Mexican Culture (date), p213
Michelangelo, and St Peters dome, transition into Baroque, p184
mien, p203
Minerva Medica, Temple of p211
Minnesanger, p193
minstrel’s lay, p195
Mithraeum, p209
Mithras, p213, Mithraism, p216
Monophysite, p211
Moorish architecture, p207, Moorish buildings, p211
mosaics, of Magian Culture, p183 of dome basilicas (Ravenna), p214, of late Roman, p215
mosque, p183
Mozart, p207
music, p187
Mycenaean age, p196
N
naturalism (as art), p192
nave, p210
Neo-Platonism, p216
Nerva’ Fora, p215
Nestorian East, p209, and Christianity, p211
Nietzsche, “art…before God as the supreme witness”, p191
Nisibis, p209
Nordic, Old p215
Norman-Hohenstaufen (rule in Palermo), p211
Norwich cathedral Normans, p196
nude statue, p183
Numa, p185
O
octagon, p200
Odysseus & Achilles (endurance), p203
Oedipus, p183
“old Northern” (poem),p186
Olympian Gods, cult of, p183
Olympus, p186
Ommaiyads, p207
oratorio, p187
organ fugue, p187 Ornament, p197
oriental carpets, p197
Origen, p214
Orpheus, p185
P
Paderborn (region of Westphalia-Saxony), p196
Paestum, Temple of, p205
Palazzo Farnese, p205
Palermo p216
Pantheon (of Hadrian) , p211, master mason, p208
parallel motion parts (church music), p196
pari passu, p206
Parzival, p186, p199
Pauline West, p209, Pauline Christianity, p209
PaulinzelIa (region of Westphalia-Saxony), p196
pedant, p207
pendentive cupola, p200
Pergamum (frieze of Giants), p205
Persia, p208, religion of, p183, p209, temple, p209, Persian and Indian metal work, p197, Persia-Anatolia world, p215
Peterborough cathedral, p196
Pisano character, p212
phallus symbol, p183
Phidias, p207
philological, p208
physiognomic spirit, p214, and of Magian soul, p214
pillar halls (4th dynasty) , p206
pillared basilicas (Constantinian) , p206
Plotinus, p213, p214
"Pneuma", p216
pointed arch, p213
points d’appui, p213
Polygnotus, his fresco, p183
porch, p210
Portuguese in E. Indies, p213
post-Classical religions, p183
Potsdam, p207
presentiment, p206
Procopius of Byzantium, p207
propitious, p185
prosody, p185
Provencal, p213
pseudomorphism, p187, p214, p216
pylon, p203
pyramids of 4th dynasty, p189
Q
R
Ravenna, p216, , domed basilica of, p211
Rembrandt, p183
Renaissance (contradiction), p206, and tragicomic delusion, p215
“return to nature”, p207
rhythmic syntax, p185
rib vaulting, p199
Riegl, p208, and “latent Saracenic character”, p215
rock- and terrace-temples, p202
Rococo stage (of Moorish mosques, castles), p215
Roman, late, p207
Roman portrait busts (stylized hair), p212
Roman Syria, p208
Romanesque, p183, p201, in Baroque monuments, p202
Romanticism, p197
Rousseau, p207
Rubens, p207
S
Sabaean temple of S. Arabian origin, p210
sacred precinct, p185
Sahu-re, pyramid of, p203
Saint Chappelle, p199
Saint Germigny des Pres, church of, p201
Saint Lorenz, Nuremberg (late Gothic, early Baroque), p205
Saint Patroclus, p205
Saint Paul (Rome), p210
Saint Pierre Moissac, p199
Saint Vitale (Ravenna)
saints (9-11th century legends of), p187 Salonika (Saint. George), p201
sarcophagi (3rd century), p212, 215
Sassanids, p212
scholastic philosophy, p213
Schuhplattler, p192
Sesostris, p206, p207
Shakespeare (conflict of will and world), p203
Shan-tung, p211
Siegfried,p186
skalds, p193
South, p216
Southern France (Romanesque churches of), p196
Spanish in America, p213
Spengler, “emancipation of Magian mankind”,p213,’Classical’ Syncretism…”, p209, “the plane without limit”, p201
“one never ending sacrifice”, p187, “statical treatment of static genera”, p205, “a book” by Iamblichus,
p216
Speyer cathedral, p185
spherical and polygonal forms, p200
squinch-cupola, p195
Stabriem, p186
stalactites, p207
stereometrically, p184
Stoics, p203
Strasberg Minster, p213
string instruments (origins), p195
Strzygowski, p184, p208
Sun god, p213
Sun temples of the 5th Dynasty, p189
suicide (in Apollonian Culture), p204
symbolic spirit, p214
synagogues of Mesopotamia, p210
Syncretism, cult of, p209
T
Tallyrand, "Qui n' a pas .vecu avant 1789 ne connait pas la douceur de vivre.", p207
Tao, 190, and life’s path, p203
temple of Venus & Rome (vaulting) , p211
Teutonic knights in Slavonic East, p213
Tevrezent, p186
Thunder-pattern, p196
Tintoretto, p207
Tiresias, p185
Trajan’s Fora, p215
Tristan, p186, p199
Tzigane music, p195
U
union of round arch & column, p214
V
Valhalla,p186
Vasari, p192, on vaults (of Gothic naves), p184
Vatican Collection, p216
Velleius Paterculus, p205
Venice (St Marks & Byzantium influence), p211, 216
Vienna, p207
Vignola to Bernini, p197
Viking Gothic (dominate Gothic feeling), p213
Vitruvius, p204
Voluspa (elder Edda), p185
W
Watteau, p207
way, p189, p201
West Aramean Syrian style, p211
Western Judaism, p209
Winckelmann (Goethe), p205
Winfried, p187
Wolfram's Parzeval, p186
wooden architecture…eight-sided tent-roof , p201
Wotan, p187
Wurtzberg, p207
X,
Y
yin-pi (Spirit Wall) , p203
Z
Zeuxis, p207