← Table of contents
A History of Sculpture

CONTENTS

Reading edition

PART I.—HELLENIC SCULPTURE

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE RISE OF GREEK SCULPTURE AND THE ATHLETIC SCULPTURES OF GREECE 3

II. THE PARTHENON AND THE TEMPLE STATUARY OF GREECE (470 b.c. to 420 b.c.) 25

III. THE AGE OF SCOPAS AND PRAXITELES (400 b.c. to 330 b.c.) 44

IV. LYSIPPUS AND THE FOURTH-CENTURY REALISTS; WITH A NOTE ON MODERN SCULPTURAL CRITICISM 65

PART II.—HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN SCULPTURE

V. THE POST-ALEXANDRIAN ART OF THE EMPIRE OF SELEUCUS, THE KINGDOM OF PERGAMUS, OF RHODES, AND OF ALEXANDRIA (300 b.c. to 50 b.c.) 83

VI. THE HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE OF GREECE (300 b.c. to 50 b.c.) 99

VII. THE PORTRAIT SCULPTURE OF ROME (50 b.c. to a.d. 330) 117

PART III.—THE SCULPTURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

VIII. THE GOTHIC SCULPTORS AND THE RISE OF ITALIAN SCULPTURE AT PISA (a.d. 1000 to 1350) 145

IX. THE RISE OF NATURALISM—GHIBERTI, DONATELLO, VEROCCHIO, ETC. (a.d. 1400-1500) 159

X. MICHAEL ANGELO AND THE FLOOD TIDE OF RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE (a.d. 1490-1530) 183

XI. ITALIAN SCULPTURE FROM a.d.. 1527 TO a.d. 1650—CELLINI, GIOVANNI BOLOGNA, AND BERNINI 198

PART IV.—MODERN SCULPTURE

XII. THE ART OF MONARCHICAL FRANCE, FROM FRANCIS I. (a.d. 1515) TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789) 221

XIII. THE NEO-CLASSICAL REVIVAL: EUROPEAN SCULPTURE OF THE REVOLUTION AND THE REACTION (a.d. 1789-1848) 246

XIV. THE MODERN FRENCH SCHOOL (AFTER 1848) 263

XV. THE MODERN BRITISH SCHOOL (THE NINETEENTH CENTURY) 280

LIST OF BOOKS 305

INDEX 309

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings