LIST OF PLATES
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| The Virgin. From Michael Angelo’s “Pieta.” St. Peter’s, Rome | [Frontispiece] |
| Diana (Archaistic). The National Museum, Naples | [ 12] |
| Dedicatory Statue (Archaic). The Acropolis Museum, Athens | [ 12] |
| Harmodius. National Museum, Naples | [ 14] |
| The Charioteer. Delphi Museum | [ 14] |
| The Spartan Girl. The Vatican, Rome | [ 18] |
| The Doryphorus. National Museum, Naples | [ 18] |
| Myron’s Discobolus. The Ashmolean, Oxford | [ 22] |
| Theseus. British Museum. | |
| A figure from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon | [ 30] |
| The Three Fates. British Museum. | |
| A group from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon | [ 30] |
| From The Parthenon Frieze. British Museum. | |
| Scenes from the Panathenaic Procession | [ 32] |
| Zeus. The Vatican, Rome. Found at Otricoli | [ 36] |
| Hera. Terme Museum, Rome. From the Villa Ludovisi | [ 36] |
| Hera. The Vatican, Rome | [ 40] |
| The Mausoleum Charioteer. British Museum, London | [ 48] |
| Niobe. The Glyptothek, Munich | [ 50] |
| Menelaus and Patroclus. Loggia de Lonzi, Florence | [ 52] |
| Ares Ludovisi. The Vatican, Rome | [ 52] |
| The “Dexileus” Relief. The Ceramicus, Athens | [ 54] |
| The Hermes (head). By Praxiteles. Olympia | [ 58] |
| The “Eros” Torso. The Vatican, Rome. Found at Centocelle | [ 60] |
| Aphrodite of Cnidus. The Vatican, Rome | [ 62] |
| The Apoxyomenus. The Vatican, Rome | [ 68] |
| Meleager. The Vatican, Rome | [ 68] |
| The Sarcophagus of Alexander. Constantinople | [ 74] |
| Phocion. The Vatican, Rome | [ 76] |
| Pericles. Pericles. | [ 78] |
| The Head of Alexander (after Lysippus). British Museum | [ 78] |
| The Tyche of Antioch. The Vatican, Rome | [ 86] |
| The Dying Gaul. The Capitoline Museum, Rome | [ 88] |
| The Triumph of Athena. From the Altar of Zeus, Pergamus. Berlin | [ 92] |
| The Laocoon Group. The Vatican, Rome | [ 94] |
| The Nile. The Vatican, Rome | [ 96] |
| The Farnese Hercules. National Museum, Naples | [100] |
| The Cerigotto Bronze. The Museum, Athens | [102] |
| The Apollo Belvedere. The Vatican, Rome | [106] |
| Venus of Medici. The Uffizi, Florence | [106] |
| Venus of Milo. The Louvre, Paris | [112] |
| Boy strangling a Goose. The Louvre, Paris | [114] |
| Child with Lantern. Terme Museum, Rome | [114] |
| The Boxer (Bronze). Terme Museum, Rome | [120] |
| Orestes and Electra (pseudo-archaic). National Museum, Naples | [128] |
| Augustus. The Vatican, Rome | [128] |
| Nerva (Head). The Vatican, Rome | [132] |
| Antinous. The Vatican, Rome | [136] |
| Marcus Aurelius. Rome | [138] |
| A Gothic Panel: “The Last Judgment.” A bas-relief from the porch of Bourges Cathedral | [150] |
| Giovanni Pisano: “The Adoration of the Magi.” A panel from the pulpit of the Pisan Duomo. Now in the Museo Civico, Pisa | [150] |
| Niccola Pisano: “The Pulpit at Pisa” | [156] |
| Lorenzo Ghiberti: “The Gates of Paradise.” The Baptistery, Florence | [164] |
| Donatello: “Saint George.” From the church of Or San Michele, Florence | [172] |
| Donatello: “David.” The Bargello, Florence | [174] |
| Jacopo della Quercia: The Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto. The Cathedral, Lucca | [176] |
| Luca della Robbia: “The Visitation.” Pistoja | [178] |
| Andrea Verocchio: “The Doubting Thomas.” A group for the exterior of Or San Michele, Florence | [180] |
| Verocchio and Leopardi: The Colleoni Monument. Venice | [182] |
| Michael Angelo: “David.” Academy of Fine Arts, Florence | [184] |
| Michael Angelo: “The Pieta.” St. Peter’s, Rome | [186] |
| Michael Angelo: Monument of Lorenzo. Medici Chapel, Florence | [186] |
| Michael Angelo: “Moses.” A figure designed for the Tomb of Julius II. | [188] |
| Michael Angelo: Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino. The Medici Chapel, Florence | [192] |
| Michael Angelo: “Night.” From the monument to Giuliano, Duke of Nemours. The Medici Chapel, Florence | [194] |
| Michael Angelo: “Dawn.” From the monument to Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino. The Medici Chapel, Florence | [194] |
| Benvenuto Cellini: “Perseus.” The Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence | [204] |
| Giovanni Bologna: “Mercury.” The Bargello, Florence | [204] |
| Giovanni Bologna: “The Rape of the Sabine Women.” The Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence | [208] |
| Giovanni Bernini: “Apollo and Daphne.” From the Borghese Gallery, Rome | [210] |
| Giovanni Bernini: “The Ecstatic Vision of St. Theresa.” The church of S. Maria della Vittoria, Rome | [210] |
| Peter Vischer: “King Arthur.” Innsbruck | [224] |
| Goujon: “The Diana” from Anet. The Louvre, Paris | [230] |
| Puget: “The Immaculate Conception.” Genoa | [234] |
| Girardon: “Apollo and Nymphs.” Versailles | [236] |
| Pigalle: “Mercury.” The Louvre, Paris | [238] |
| Falconet: “L’Amour Menaçant.” The Louvre, Paris | [238] |
| Clodion: “Satyr with Flute” | [240] |
| Houdon: “Diana.” The Louvre, Paris | [242] |
| Houdon: “Voltaire” (bust). The Louvre, Paris | [244] |
| Antonio Canova: Pauline Borghese as “Venus Victrix.” Villa Borghese, Rome | [248] |
| Antonio Canova: “Cupid and Psyche.” Villa Carlotta, Lake of Como | [248] |
| Bertel Thorvaldsen: “Venus.” Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth | [252] |
| François Rude: The Marseillaise Relief. Paris | [254] |
| John Flaxman: “Satan and the Archangel Michael.” From the model in South Kensington | [260] |
| Antoine Barye: “Centaur and Lapith.” The Louvre, Paris | [264] |
| Jean Baptiste Carpeaux: “The Dance.” Opera House, Paris | [268] |
| Antoine Idrac: “Mercury Inventing the Caduceus.” The Luxembourg, Paris | [270] |
| Paul Dubois: “St. John the Baptist.” The Luxembourg, Paris | [270] |
| Jules Dalou: “The Triumph of Silenus.” Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris | [272] |
| Auguste Rodin: “The Kiss.” The Luxembourg, Paris | [276] |
| Auguste Rodin: “The Thinker.” The Pantheon, Paris | [278] |
| John Gibson: “Hylas and the Nymphs.” Tate Gallery, London | [282] |
| Alfred Stevens: Figure from the Fireplace, Dorchester House, London | [286] |
| Lord Leighton: “Athlete and Python.” Tate Gallery | [288] |
| Thomas Brock: “Eve.” The Tate Gallery, London | [290] |
| Hamo Thornycroft: “The Mower.” Liverpool | [290] |
| Meunier (Belgian School): “The Mower” | [292] |
| Alfred Gilbert: “Saint George.” From the Clarence Memorial, Windsor | [296] |
| Onslow Ford: “Egyptian Singer.” The Tate Gallery, London | [298] |
| Harry Bates: “Pandora.” The Tate Gallery, London | [300] |
| J. M. Swan: “Orpheus” | [300] |
| George J. Frampton: “Mysteriarch” | [302] |