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Dürer’s

Hugo’s

Pugin’s

Ruskin’s

Viollet-le-Duc’s

Northanger Abbey
(Austen)

novels

Austen’s (
see
Austen, Jane)

Hugo’s

Twain’s (
see
Twain, Mark)

 

one-liners, Twain’s

operas.
See also
music

Hugo’s plays as

Shakespeare’s plays as

Wagner’s

orchestral music, Bach’s

organs, Bach and

originality
See also
creativity

output.
See
productivity

 

painting.
See
Hokusai Katsushika; Picasso, Pablo; Turner, Joseph Mallord William

Paris, fashion design and
See also
Balenciaga, Cristóbal; Dior, Christian

Parliament of Fowls, The
(Chaucer)

Peacock Window
(Tiffany)

performance art, Hokusai’s

permanence, Balenciaga and

persiflage, Shakespeare’s

personal experience

Persuasion
(Austen)

Phoenix and the Turtle, The
(Shakespeare)

physical debility, creativity and

pianoforte music, Bach’s

Picasso, Pablo

Disney vs.

fame and financial status of

family of

productivity of

sexuality and morality of

plays

Hugo’s

T. S. Eliot’s

Shakespeare’s (
see
Shakespeare, William)

poetry

Chaucer’s (
see
Chaucer, Geoffrey)

T. S. Eliot’s (
see
Eliot, T. S.)

Hugo’s

Shakespeare’s (
see
Shakespeare, William)

Pointed Gothic architecture.
See
Pugin, A. W. N.; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène

politics

Disney vs. Picasso and

Hugo’s

Shakespeare’s

Potter, Beatrice

Pound, Ezra

Powell, Anthony

practicality

Bach’s

Chaucer’s

Dürer’s

Pugin’s

Shakespeare’s

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen)

printing.
See also
book illustrations

Dürer and

Hokusai and

Pritchett, V. S.

productivity.
See also
creativity

Austen’s

Bach’s

Dürer’s

George Eliot’s

Picasso’s

Shakespeare’s

proverbs, Chaucer and

Pugin, A. W. N.

appearance of

business acumen of

drawings and designs of

family of

Gothic style of

influence of, on Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, and Morris

pyramid at Saqqâra (Imhotep)

 

realism.
See
naturalism

registration, Bach and organ

Regulus
(Turner)

religion.
See
God

restorations, Viollet-le-Duc’s

rewards
See also
fame; financial status

Ring, The
(Wagner)

Roosevelt, Theodore

Roughing It
(Twain)

Royal Academy

running gags, Twain’s

Ruskin, John

 

safety lamp, Davy’s

St. Chad’s cathedral (Pugin)

St. Jerome in His Study
(Dürer)

St. Matthew Passion
(Bach)

Sand, George (Aurore Dupin)

Saqqâra pyramid (Imhotep)

Scarlatti family

Schongauer, Martin

sciences

artist-scientists

careers and creativity

creativity and

Davy’s safety lamp

Edison’s inventions

experience and

hypotheses as metaphors

Telford’s constructions

seascapes, Hokusai’s

secretiveness, Turner’s

self-confidence

Austen’s

Chaucer’s

Sense and Sensibility
(Austen)

sexuality.
See also
women

Austen’s

Balenciaga’s

Hugo’s

Picasso’s

Tiffany’s

Turner’s

Shakespeare, William

dialects of

English language and

Falstaff character in
Henry IV
by

family and career of

Hamlet
by

music and

practicality of

productivity of

values of

Shelley, Mary

shunga
, Hokusai’s

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(Disney)

sound, Disney and
See also
music

Spencer, Herbert

spirituality.
See
God

staffage, Turner’s

Steamboat Willie
(Disney)

Stendhal

Stevenson, Robert Louis

studios.
See
collective creativity

surrealism, Picasso’s

symbolism, T. S. Eliot’s

synthetic cubism, Picasso’s

 

Taming of the Shrew, The
(Shakespeare)

technology

Bach and organs

creativity and

Disney and

Turner and

Telford, Thomas

tempering, Bach’s keyboard

Tempest, The
(Shakespeare)

theaters.
See also
plays

first electric, by Edison and Tiffany

movie houses and Disney

Pugin and

Shakespeare and

theme parks, Disney’s

theory

Dürer’s

Pugin’s

Shakespeare’s dislike of

Viollet-le-Duc’s

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
(Hokusai)

Thomas, Dylan

Tiffany, Louis Comfort

art nouveau and

Joseph Briggs’s collection and Tiffany revival

colored window glass of

as creator facilitator

Edison and

fame and decline of

family and jewelry business of

glassmaking methods

lamps of

William Morris and

new glass types of

time, T. S. Eliot and

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri

travel

Bach and

Chaucer, Ruskin, and

Dürer and

T. S. Eliot and

Hokusai and

Pugin and

Turner and

Tree in the Marsh
(Tiffany)

Tristan und Isolde
(Wagner)

Troilus and Cressida
(Shakespeare)

Troilus and Criseyde
(Chaucer)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

color usage

erotica of

fame and financial status of

family of

Hokusai Katsushika vs.

productivity of

travels of

Twain, Mark

American literature and

careers of

“The Golden Arm” story

humor and skills of

productivity of

 

Ursprung
(Bach)

 

verse.
See
poetry

Vindication of the Rights of Women
(Wollstonecraft)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène

vocal music, Bach’s

vulgar language

Wagner, Richard

Waste Land, The
(T. S. Eliot)

watercolors

Dürer’s

Pugin’s

Turner’s

Watsons, The
(Austen)

Waugh, Evelyn

Weber family

Well-Tempered Clavier
(Bach)

white school, Turner’s

widows, artist

wine, Chaucer and
See also
alcohol

Wolgemut, Michael

Wollstonecraft, Mary

women.
See also
sexuality

artist widows

Austen (
see
Austen, Jane)

Balenciaga and

creativity and families of

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

T. S. Eliot and

Hokusai’s erotica and

Hugo and

humor and

Picasso and

Pugin and

George Sand (Aurore Dupin)

Shakespeare’s roles

woodcuts

Dürer’s

Hokusai’s

Woodward, Robert Burns

word coinage.
See
English language

Wordsworth, William and Dorothy

Worth, Charles Frederick

Wren, Sir Christopher

Wright, Frank Lloyd

writing
See also
Austen, Jane; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Eliot, T. S.; Hugo, Victor; nonfiction; Shakespeare, William; Twain, Mark

About the Author

P
AUL
J
OHNSON
is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. His
History of Christianity
and
History of the Jews
describe the religious dimension, his
Modern Times
encapsulates the twentieth century, and his
Art: A New History
is the story of visual culture in all its forms, from the cave painters to today. He contributes a weekly essay to the
Spectator
, a monthly column to
Forbes
, practices the gentle art of watercolor painting, and lives in London and Somerset. He has four children and eight grandchildren.

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BOOKS BY PAUL JOHNSON

George Washington

Art: A New History

A History of the American People

The Quest for God

The Birth of the Modern

Intellectuals

A History of the English People

A History of the Jews

Modern Times

A History of Christianity

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CREATORS
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