CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
AUTHOR OF "HANDBOOK OF LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL ART,"
"PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, ENGRAVERS, ARCHITECTS AND THEIR WORKS,"
"ARTISTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY," ETC.
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY MDCCCXCI
Copyright, 1887,
By FREDERICK A. STOKES,
Successor to White, Stokes, & Allen.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
|---|---|
| Ancient Sculpture: | |
| Egypt, | [1] |
| Assyria, | [10] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Greek Sculpture, | [18] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Ancient Italian Sculpture, | [82] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Mediæval Sculpture, from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century, | [105] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Italian Sculpture in the Fifteenth Century, | [136] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Sculpture in Germany, France, England, and Spain, from 1450 to 1550, | [160] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Italian Sculpture in the Sixteenth Century—Cellini, Michael Angelo, and Others, | [181] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| European Sculpture from Michael Angelo to Canova, | [213] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Canova, Thorwaldsen, and Other Recent Sculptors, | [235] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Venus of Milo, | [Frontispiece] |
| Statue of Cephren in the Museum at Cairo, | [3] |
| Various Kinds of Dogs, | [5] |
| Androsphinx, | [6] |
| Kriosphinx, | [6] |
| The Great Sphinx, | [7] |
| Hieracosphinx, | [8] |
| The Colossi at Thebes, | [9] |
| Polishing a Colossal Statue, | [10] |
| Mode of Transporting a Colossus from the Quarries (from a lithographic Drawing), | [11] |
| Statue of Sardanapalus I. (from Nimrud), | [12] |
| Lion-Hunt (from Nimrud), | [13] |
| Wounded Lion Biting a Chariot-wheel, | [15] |
| Arm-chair or Throne (Khorsabad), | [16] |
| Mode of Drawing the Bow (Koyunjik), | [17] |
| Lion Devouring Deer, | [22] |
| Heracles, Triton, and Nereids, | [23] |
| Heracles and the Cecrops, | [23] |
| Actæon and his Dogs, | [24] |
| From the Harpy Monument, London, | [25] |
| Figures from the Pediment of the Temple of Minerva, at Ægina, | [27] |
| Archaistic Artemis at Naples, | [28] |
| The Discobolus (Myron), | [30] |
| Athenian Coins with the Minerva Promachos, | [34] |
| Coin of Elis with the Olympian Zeus, | [36] |
| Bust of Jupiter found at Otricoli, | [37] |
| Torso of a Statue of Theseus (?), | [38] |
| From the Frieze of the Parthenon, | [43] |
| The Five Central Figures, | [44] |
| Youths Preparing to join the Cavalcade, | [45] |
| Horsemen Starting, | [46] |
| Procession of Cavalry, | [46] |
| Procession of Chariots, | [47] |
| Train of Musicians and Youths, | [47] |
| Cows for Sacrifice, | [48] |
| Train of Noble Maidens, | [48] |
| Head of Asclepius (in the British Museum), | [50] |
| A Wounded Amazon (Cresilas), | [52] |
| Statue of Pericles (Cresilas), | [52] |
| Eirene and the Young Plutus (Cephisodotus), | [56] |
| Portrait of Mausolus, | [57] |
| From the Frieze of the Mausoleum, | [58] |
| The Eros of Centocelle, | [60] |
| Niobe and her Youngest Daughter, | [62] |
| Brother and Sister, | [63] |
| The Eldest Daughter, | [64] |
| A Niobid, | [65] |
| Ganymede (after Leochares), | [66] |
| Monument of Lysicrates (Athens), | [67] |
| Bacchus and Lion (from the Lysicrates Monument), | [68] |
| The Apoxyomenos of Lysippus, | [69] |
| The Laocoon Group, | [75] |
| The Farnese Bull, | [77] |
| Gallic Warrior (Venice), | [78] |
| The Dying Gaul, | [79] |
| Boy and Goose, | [80] |
| Spinario, | [81] |
| Venus de' Medici, | [86] |
| The Farnesian Hercules, | [89] |
| The Apollo Belvedere, | [90] |
| Head of Apollo Belvedere, | [91] |
| The Steinhäuser Head, | [91] |
| The Stroganoff Apollo, | [92] |
| Diane à la Biche, | [95] |
| Athena of the Capitol, | [96] |
| Triumphal Procession from Arch of Titus, | [97] |
| From the Reliefs of Trajan's Column, | [99] |
| Portrait of Sophocles, | [101] |
| Statue of Augustus, | [102] |
| Agrippina the Elder, | [103] |
| Statue of St. Peter, | [106] |
| From the Cathedra of Maximianus, | [109] |
| Diptych (Zurich), | [110] |
| From the Façade of Chartres Cathedral, | [113] |
| From the North Transept of Rheims Cathedral, | [118] |
| From the West Façade of Strasburg Cathedral, | [120] |
| Duke Robert of Normandy, | [121] |
| Ivory Relief (Hunting Scene), | [124] |
| Relief by Nicola Pisano (Lucca), | [128] |
| Relief from the Pulpit at Pisa (Nicola Pisano), | [129] |
| Campo Santo of Pisa (Giovanni Pisano), | [132] |
| Relief by Jacopo della Quercia (Bologna), | [138] |
| From the Eastern Gates (showing compartments 6, 8, and 10), | [141] |
| The Annunciation (Donatello), | [143] |
| Statue of St. George (Donatello), | [144] |
| Dancing Boys (Luca della Robbia), | [147] |
| Boy with Dolphin (Verocchio), | [149] |
| Statue of Colleoni (Verocchio), | [150] |
| Terra-cottas from the Ospedale Grande (Milan), | [156] |
| Count Eberhard von Grumbach (Rimpar), | [169] |
| Justice, | [170] |
| The Three Wise Virgins, | [170] |
| Tomb of St. Sebald (Nuremberg), | [172] |
| Peter Vischer's Statue, | [173] |
| St. Sebald and the Burning Icicles (Vischer), | [174] |
| Peter (Vischer), | [175] |
| John (Vischer), | [175] |
| Man and Geese (Labenwolf), | [176] |
| Pharisee, Levite (Rustici), | [183] |
| Bacchus (Jacopo Sansovino), | [185] |
| Perseus (Benvenuto Cellini), | [191] |
| Michael Angelo's Angel (Bologna), | [197] |
| Pietà (Michael Angelo), | [199] |
| Michael Angelo's David, | [201] |
| Giuliano de' Medici (Michael Angelo), | [205] |
| Statue of Moses (Michael Angelo), | [207] |
| Mercury (Giovanni da Bologna), | [215] |
| Relief by Berruguete (Valladolid), | [217] |
| Rape of Proserpine (Bernini), | [225] |
| Caryatide (Quellinus), | [231] |
| Heads of Dying Warriors (Schlüter), | [232] |
| The Great Elector (Schlüter), | [233] |
| The Three Graces (Canova), | [241] |
| Hebe (Canova), | [246] |
| Ariadne and the Panther (Dannecker), | [249] |
| Jason (Thorwaldsen), | [256] |
| Ganymede and the Eagle (Thorwaldsen), | [260] |
| The Three Graces (Thorwaldsen), | [261] |
| Statue of Queen Louise (Rauch), | [270] |
| Nymph (by Bosio), | [273] |