A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

Mediæval Sculpture, from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century , 105 Italian Sculpture in the Fifteenth Century , 136 Sculpture in Germany, France, England, and Spain, from 1450 to 1550 , 160 Italian Sculpture in the Sixteenth Century—Cellini, Michael Angelo, and Others , 181 European Sculpture from Michael Angelo to Canova , 213 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 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 la Biche , 95 Athena of the Capitol, 96 Triumphal Procession…