Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [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 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