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A History of Sculpture

Chapter 3: LIST OF PLATES
By Ernest Henry Short
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A compact chronological survey charts the development of Western sculpture from early Greek athletic and temple statuary through Hellenistic drama and Roman portraiture to Gothic, Renaissance, and later European schools, ending with modern French and British trends. Emphasizing national and historical contexts, the narrative reads styles as expressions of peoples and social circumstances rather than solely individual genius, highlights key characteristic works and stylistic shifts—naturalism, portrait realism, neoclassical revival—and limits technical minutiae and extensive biographies. The work is organized by period, richly illustrated, and accompanied by a concise bibliography for further reading.

LIST OF PLATES

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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