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A History of Sculpture

A History of Sculpture

by Ernest Henry Short

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Author
Short, Ernest Henry, 1875-1959
Credits
Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
NB: Fine Arts: Sculpture
Subject
Sculpture -- History
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 65276
Release Date
May 7, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A HISTORY OF SCULPTURE
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.PREFACE
  6. 6.CONTENTS
  7. 7.LIST OF PLATES
  8. 8.PART I HELLENIC SCULPTURE — CHAPTER I — THE EARLY BEGINNINGS ( 1000 b.c. TO 550 b.c. ) — THE GROWTH OF NATURALISM ( 550 b.c. TO 480 b.c. ) — THE ATHLETIC SCULPTURES ( 480 b.c. TO 400 b.c. ) — THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
  9. 9.CHAPTER II — THE PARTHENON — THE TEMPLE STATUARY
  10. 10.CHAPTER III — THE AGE OF SCOPAS ( 400 b.c.-350 b.c. ) — THE AGE OF PRAXITELES ( 360 b.c.-325 b.c. ) — THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK WOMANHOOD
  11. 11.CHAPTER IV — MODERN SCULPTURAL CRITICISM — GREEK PORTRAITURE
  12. 12.PART II HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN SCULPTURE — CHAPTER V — THE EMPIRE OF SELEUCUS ( 301 b.c. TO 65 b.c. ) — THE KINGDOM OF PERGAMUS ( 283 b.c. TO 133 b.c. ) — THE SCULPTURE OF RHODES AND ALEXANDRIA (300 b.c. TO 50 b.c.)
  13. 13.CHAPTER VI — THE FOLLOWERS OF LYSIPPUS — THE FOLLOWERS OF PRAXITELES
  14. 14.CHAPTER VII — THE GRÆCO-ROMAN SCULPTORS — THE RISE OF ROMAN PORTRAITURE — THE HEIGHT OF ROMAN IMPERIALISM ( 96 a.d. TO 117 a.d. ) — THE REACTION UNDER HADRIAN ( 117 a.d. TO 138 a.d. ) — POST-HADRIAN SCULPTURE
  15. 15.PART III THE SCULPTURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE — CHAPTER VIII — THE GOTHIC SCULPTORS — THE PISANI
  16. 16.CHAPTER IX — GHIBERTI AND THE GATES OF THE FLORENTINE BAPTISTERY — DONATELLO AND THE CHURCH OF OR SAN MICHELE — THE INFLUENCE OF THE PLATONISTS
  17. 17.CHAPTER X — THE FLORENTINE PERIOD — THE MEDICI TOMBS
  18. 18.CHAPTER XI — BENVENUTO CELLINI — BERNINI AND THE CATHOLIC REACTION
  19. 19.PART IV MODERN SCULPTURE — CHAPTER XII — THE AGE OF FRANCIS I. — THE AGE OF LOUIS QUATORZE — THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIII — CANOVA AND THORVALDSEN — THE SCULPTURE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — THE RISE OF ENGLISH SCULPTURE
  21. 21.CHAPTER XIV — THE ACADEMIC SCULPTORS — AUGUSTE RODIN
  22. 22.CHAPTER XV — THE RISE OF NATURALISM — THE GROWTH OF INDIVIDUALISM
  23. 23.LIST OF BOOKS
  24. 24.INDEX

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