I have to thank my father, Mr. Charles Short, and Mr. Edwin Preston, for their kindness in reading my proofs, and Mr. H. L. Weinberg for his help while this book has been passing through the press.

Ernest H. Short.

6, Pitt Street,
Kensington.

CONTENTS

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]

LIST OF PLATES

To face page
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]