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

Opening of the book

Fig. 58
Fig. 58.—The Venus of Milo. (See
page 87.)
A
HISTORY OF ART
FOR
BEGINNERS AND STUDENTS
PAINTING—SCULPTURE—ARCHITECTURE
WITH
COMPLETE INDEXES AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
AUTHOR OF "HANDBOOK OF LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL ART,"
"PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, ENGRAVERS, ARCHITECTS AND THEIR
WORKS,"
"ARTISTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY," ETC.

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY MDCCCXCI
Copyright, 1887,
By FREDERICK A. STOKES,
Successor to White, Stokes, & Allen.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Ancient Sculpture:
Egypt,
1
Assyria,
10
CHAPTER II.
Greek Sculpture,
18
CHAPTER III.
Ancient Italian Sculpture,
82
CHAPTER IV.
Mediæval Sculpture, from the Fifth to
the Fifteenth Century,
105
CHAPTER V.
Italian Sculpture in the Fifteenth
Century,
136
CHAPTER VI.
Sculpture in Germany, France, England,
and Spain, from 1450 to 1550,
160
CHAPTER VII.
Italian Sculpture in the Sixteenth
Century—Cellini, Michael Angelo, and
Others,
181
CHAPTER VIII.
European Sculpture from Michael Angelo
to Canova,
213
CHAPTER IX.

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
Actæon and his Dogs,
24

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