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A History of Sculpture

by Ernest H. Short

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  1. 1An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout th…
  2. 2Dedication — Preface
  3. 3Part I — Hellenic Sculpture
  4. 4Diana (Archaistic)
  5. 5The Charioteer (Bronze)
  6. 6“The Spartan Girl” — The Doryphorus of Polyclitus
  7. 7Chapter II — The Parthenon and the Temple Statuary of Greece (470 b…
  8. 8“The Three Fates”
  9. 9The Barberine Hera
  10. 10Chapter III — The Age of Scopas and Praxiteles (400 b.c. To 330 b.c.)
  11. 11The Mausoleum Charioteer
  12. 12The Niobe Group
  13. 13The Ludovisi Ares — Menelaus and Patroclus
  14. 14“The Dexileus Relief”
  15. 15Hermes of Praxiteles (Detail)
  16. 16The Eros of Centocelle
  17. 17Aphrodite of Cnidus
  18. 18Chapter IV — Lysippus and the Fourth-Century Realists With a Note o…
  19. 19Apoxyomenus (School of Lysippus)
  20. 20“Sarcophagus of Alexander”
  21. 21Part II — Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture
  22. 22The Tyche of Antioch
  23. 23The Dying Gaul
  24. 24Triumph of Athena
  25. 25The Laocoon Group
  26. 26The Nile
  27. 27Chapter VI — The Hellenistic Sculpture of Greece (300 b.c. To 50 b.c.)
  28. 28The Farnese Hercules
  29. 29The Cerigotto Bronze
  30. 30The Apollo Belvedere — The Venus of Medici
  31. 31The Venus of Milo
  32. 32Boy Strangling a Goose — Child With Lantern
  33. 33Chapter VII — The Portrait Sculpture of Rome
  34. 34The Seated Boxer
  35. 35Orestes and Electra — (School of Pasiteles)
  36. 36Nerva (Detail)
  37. 37Marcus Aurelius
  38. 38Part III — The Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
  39. 39The Pulpit at Pisa
  40. 40Chapter IX — The Rise of Naturalism — Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello,…
  41. 41“The Gates of Paradise”
  42. 42Saint George
  43. 43Tomb of Ilaria del Caretto
  44. 44The Visitation
  45. 45“The Doubting Thomas”
  46. 46The Colleoni Monument — Chapter X — Michael Angelo and the Flood Ti…
  47. 47“The Pieta”
  48. 48The Duke Lorenzo
  49. 49Chapter XI — Italian Sculpture From 1527 to 1650 a.d. Cellini, Giov…
  50. 50Rape of the Sabines
  51. 51Apollo and Daphne — Saint Theresa
  52. 52Part IV — Modern Sculpture
  53. 53King Arthur
  54. 54Diana (From the Fountain at Anet)
  55. 55The Immaculate Conception
  56. 56Apollo and the Nymphs
  57. 57Mercury Putting on His Sandal — L’amour Menaçant
  58. 58Satyr With Flute
  59. 59Diana (Bronze)
  60. 60Chapter XIII — The Neo-Classical Revival: European Sculpture of the…
  61. 61Cupid and Psyche — Pauline Borghese
  62. 62“The Marseillaise” Relief
  63. 63Michael and Satan (Sketch)
  64. 64Chapter XIV — The Modern French School (After 1848)
  65. 65Lapith and Centaur
  66. 66The Dance
  67. 67Saint John — Mercury Inventing the Caduceus
  68. 68Triumph of Silenus
  69. 69“The Kiss” (le Baiser)
  70. 70The Thinker
  71. 71Chapter XV — The Modern British School the Nineteenth Century
  72. 72Hylas and the Nymphs
  73. 73Figure From the Fireplace
  74. 74Athlete Struggling With Python
  75. 75The Mower
  76. 76The Mower
  77. 77Saint George
  78. 78Egyptian Singer

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