Category: History - Ancient
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...
This is an English book. It is written for men and women who look upon the world from the distinctive standpoint arising from the use of a common language. At the head of a chap...
16. CHAPTER XIIAmong the commonplaces uppermost in latter-day thought is that which usually finds expression in the phrase, “For East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet....
11. CHAPTER VIIRoman sculpture and Roman imperialism—these two things are indissolubly connected. That is the proposition, expressed in the baldest terms, that must now be established. As long...
5. CHAPTER INowadays sculpture is not an acknowledged queen in the Tourney of the Arts. The writer who has thrust her colours into his casque and would break a lance on her behalf, struggle...
15. CHAPTER XIThe aftermath of Italian sculpture is indissolubly connected with two craftsmen of genius and an historical movement of the first order. The men, Benvenuto Cellini and Giovanni...
13. CHAPTER IXIt will be remembered that the rise of Greek sculpture was a matter of fifty or, at the most, seventy years. The Muse of the art did not spring fully grown from the head of Apol...
7. CHAPTER IIIThere is a wealth of worldy wisdom in the saying “Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin.” It reminds us that the relation of the individual to society answers many a riddle. T...
6. CHAPTER IIOn the vast canvas of recorded history one half-century has always stood out. The clearer the vision of the observer and the larger his view, the more every line in the composit...
10. CHAPTER VI“The wren can soar as high as the eagle—once lodged upon the shoulders of the king of the skies.” So men say. But the high gods only smile. They know that emotions must arise an...
18. CHAPTER XIVWe are now approaching the end of our task. It only remains to gather together the various strands of our argument, with a view to the solution of the final problem—the position...
17. CHAPTER XIIIThe period we are now to consider, covering the last few years of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth, is one of the most elusive in the history of scul...
8. CHAPTER IVIt needs little knowledge of human nature to realise that the idealisation of sensuous passion, which was the keynote of the art of Praxiteles, could not express the whole natur...
9. CHAPTER VThe life story of an idea—the flower of the spiritual world—presents many analogies to the vital phenomena of the natural world. It is born, it lives and, maybe, it suffers the...
14. CHAPTER XThe year 1475 A.D. has been reached. We have seen the conclusion of the struggle of the sculptors to make marble and bronze bear once more the impress of every imagination of th...
12. CHAPTER VIIIThe period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of communal life in the Netherlands, Normandy, and Lombardy, saw sculpture at a lower ebb than at any time for 1200...
4. PART IV.—MODERN SCULPTUREXII. 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...
3. PART III.—THE SCULPTURE OFTHE 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, E...
1. PART I.—HELLENIC SCULPTURECHAP. 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 S...
2. PART II.—HELLENISTIC ANDROMAN 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 SCULPTU...