[Illustration: 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. PAGE
ANCIENT SCULPTURE:
EGYPT, 1
ASSYRIA, 10
CHAPTER II.
GREEK SCULPTURE, 18
CHAPTER III.
ANCIENT ITALIAN SCULPTURE, 82
CHAPTER IV.
MEDIAEVAL 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.
PAGE
Venus of Milo, _Frontispiece_
Statue of Cephren in the Museum at Cairo, 3
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A History of Art for Beginners and Students
- 2: 30 Athenian Coins with the Minerva Promachos
- 3: 52 Statue of Pericles Cresilas
- 4: 149 Statue of Colleoni Verocchio
- 5: 232 The Great Elector Schlueter
- 6: Very few attitudes are represented in Egyptian sculpture
- 7: Egyptian sculpture is remarkable
- 8: This is called the hieracosphinx Fig
- 9: The works of sculpture in Assyria consisted of statues
- 10: With the ornaments in embossed metals
- 11: Sculpture deals almost exclusively with the form of man
- 12: Among the earliest of these was DIBUTADES
- 13: As well as some chryselephantine statues
- 14: And is called The Harpy Monument
- 15: There was a period which we call archaistic
- 16: The victors in the games were heroes
- 17: The artistic fame of Myron rests more upon the Discobolus
- 18: 470 the island of Scyros had been taken by the Athenians
- 19: Athenian coins with the minerva promachos
- 20: Bust of jupiter found at otricoli
- 21: The attributes of this goddess
- 22: The peplos was not borne by hands
- 23: Who is delivering up the peplos
- 24: Concerning which it is related that Agoracritus
- 25: And of this school was CRESILAS of Cydonia
- 26: This was called the canon of Polycleitus
- 27: CEPHISODOTUS was a sculptor who lived until about B
- 28: Later he came under the influence of Scopas
- 29: Which was found in Centocelle by Gavin Hamilton
- 30: When a child Niobe played with Lato
- 31: When Lysicrates was choragus that is
- 32: This was a point in which Lysippus excelled
- 33: The most important pupil of Lysippus was CHARES OF LINDOS
- 34: If you read the history of Demetrius Poliorcetes
- 35: This group tells a part of the story of Dirce
- 36: And for this reason are attributed to Boethus
- 37: And originated with the Etruscans
- 38: His decision gave the apple to Venus
- 39: Glycon probably worked in the time of Hadrian
- 40: I come now to the Apollo Belvedere
- 41: The statuette is called the Stroganoff Apollo
- 42: Holds the aegis with its Medusa head
- 43: The arch of Trajan no longer stands
- 44: This statue is valuable not only as a portrait of Sophocles
- 45: The study of these three sculptures
- 46: Which were found in the catacombs
- 47: The artist who executed the Augustio was Eustathius of Rome
- 48: Diptychs were carved ivory tablets
- 49: From the facade of chartres cathedral
- 50: As the painting of sculpture was called
- 51: From the north transept of rheims cathedral
- 52: There are some very fine sculptures
- 53: The sculptures upon the English exteriors
- 54: Sluter had a great influence upon art
- 55: Was both architect and sculptor
- 56: Relief from the pulpit at pisa
- 57: GIOVANNI PISANO about 1240 1320 was born at Pisa
- 58: Was ANDREA ARCAGNUOLO DI CIONE
- 59: Who was so called from the little market town of Quercia
- 60: Relief by jacopo della quercia
- 61: And a close friendship existed between himself and Donatello
- 62: Brunelleschi determined to do this
- 63: The works of Donatello are numerous
- 64: And was early apprenticed to a goldsmith called Verocchio
- 65: The works of such artists as Verocchio
- 66: The tomb of Noceto was in this second style
- 67: That Leopardo completed and cast it
- 68: With its numerous pilasters and colonettes
- 69: When Ludovico lost his power Solari went to Rome
- 70: In Germany there were guilds or trade associations
- 71: The Fischkasten is sculptured in stone
- 72: Which is preserved in the Burgkapelle
- 73: Are all ascribed to Wohlgemuth
- 74: TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER was an important sculptor
- 75: And occupied Peter Vischer from 1508 to 1519
- 76: With the statue of Vischer himself
- 77: PANKRAZ LABENWOLF was one of Vischer's pupils
- 78: Torrigiano executed other works
- 79: This monument has a large marble sarcophagus
- 80: Rustici survived but three years
- 81: Is called JACOPO SANSOVINO 1477 1570
- 82: Partly from their captain's name of Fiorino
- 83: He refused to be employed by such a man as Torrigiano
- 84: Through the bust of Messer Bindo Altoviti
- 85: A cherry stone carved by Properzia
- 86: Begarelli and Correggio were fast friends
- 87: Michael Angelo escaped to Venice
- 88: Michael Angelo consented to this plan
- 89: And then Michael Angelo went to Carrara to select marble
- 90: And Michael Angelo left his work in San Lorenzo
- 91: To this Michael Angelo replied
- 92: Erected a monument to him in Santa Croce
- 93: And the Nicodemus is a portrait of Bandinelli himself
- 94: Goujon was an architect as well as a sculptor
- 95: In Spain ALONSO BERRUGUETE 1480 1561
- 96: Roldan executed the last great work in painted sculpture
- 97: Plastic art had formerly emulated painting
- 98: Bernini had great versatility of talent
- 99: FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY 1594 1646 was born at Brussels
- 100: FRANCOIS ANGUIER 1604 1669 was born at Eu
- 101: ANTOINE COYSEVOX 1640 1720 was born at Lyons
- 102: One of the ablest sculptors of his day was ARTHUR QUELLINUS
- 103: Schlueter also made a statue of the Elector Frederic III
- 104: He studied two years under Toretto
- 105: Zuliani was an enlightened patron of art
- 106: Zuliani hesitated to accept it
- 107: And resolved to erect a church at Possagno
- 108: On September 17th he went to Possagno
- 109: JOHANN HEINRICH DANNECKER 1758 1841 was born at Stuttgart
- 110: Dannecker had a delicate feeling for nature
- 111: Flaxman was a singularly pure man
- 112: And Bertel made no objection to doing so
- 113: Thorwaldsen received many orders
- 114: Louis was collecting objects for his Glyptothek at Munich
- 115: Thorwaldsen first went to Lucerne
- 116: In 1824 Thorwaldsen was summoned by the Cardinal Consalvi
- 117: Thorwaldsen was thus led on to correct the model
- 118: And bas reliefs in the Frue Kirke
- 119: The architect Schinkel was a great lover of antique art
- 120: LUDWIG SCHWANTHALER 1802 1848 studied much in Rome
- 121: And was apprenticed for the third time
- 122: Gibson took little notice of all this
- 123: Where there was no cathedral at all
- 124: The clay is then carefully picked out
- 125: Having the plastic model near at hand to refer to
- 126: Abduction of Briseis Thorwaldsen
- 127: 228 Animals in Egyptian sculpture
- 128: 281 Battle of Athenians and Amazons
- 129: 178 Brugsch Bey concerning Martisen
- 130: 258 Chryselephantine statues
- 131: Giovanni da Bologna's statue of
- 132: 189 Etruscans originated Italian sculpture
- 133: 130 France in fourteenth century
- 134: Concerning Michael Angelo's David
- 135: 105 Italy in fourteenth century
- 136: 272 King of Prussia and Schadow
- 137: 213 Loggietta of the Campanile
- 138: Attempted to restore the Laocoon
- 139: 76 Mummius and Grecian spoils
- 140: 132 Peter the Great and Schlueter
- 141: Concerning the first bas relief
- 142: Undisturbed by death of Alexander
- 143: A History of Art for Beginners and Students
- 144: 256 Schwabach and Wohlgemuth
- 145: 91 Stephani and Apollo Belvedere
- 146: 187 Trojan war in AEginetan reliefs
- 147: 271 Walther von der Vogelweid