Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Martin Mayer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [**Transcriber's notes: italics represented by underscores e.g. _italics_ bold represented by $ e.g. $bold$ The city of Terracina was mispelled Terracino in paragraph 9, section 3 of the Introduction end of transcriber's note**] [Illustration: John Andrew & Son, Sc. PERICLES _British Museum, London_] The Riverside Art Series GREEK SCULPTURE A COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN PICTURES OF GREEK MARBLES WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERPRETATION BY ESTELLE M. HURLL [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT 1901, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE Within the limits of this small collection of pictures an attempt is made to bring together as great a variety of subjects as possible. Portraiture is illustrated in the statue of Sophocles and the bust of Pericles, _genre_ studies in the Apoxyomenos and Discobolus, bas-relief work in the panel from the Parthenon frieze and the Orpheus and Eurydice, and ideal heads and statues in the representations of the divinities. Both the Greek treatment of the nude and the Greek management of drapery have due attention. As classic literature is the best interpreter of Greek sculpture, the text draws freely from such original sources as the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric hymns, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. ESTELLE M. HURLL. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. January, 1901. CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES PERICLES (_Frontispiece_) From original in British Museum INTRODUCTION I. ON SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK SCULPTURE vii II. ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE x III. HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE MARBLES REPRODUCED IN THIS COLLECTION xi I. BUST OF ZEUS OTRICOLI 1 Picture from Photograph by Fratelli Alinari II. ATHENA GIUSTINIANA (MINERVA MEDICA) 7 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson III. HORSEMEN FROM THE PARTHENON FRIEZE 13 Picture from Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co. IV. BUST OF HERA (JUNO) 19 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson V. THE APOXYOMENOS 25 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson VI. HEAD OF THE APOLLO BELVEDERE 31 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson VII. DEMETER (CERES) 37 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson VIII. THE FAUN OF PRAXITELES 43 Picture from Photograph by Fratelli Alinari IX. SOPHOCLES 49 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson X. ARES SEATED 55 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson XI. HEAD OF THE OLYMPIAN HERMES 61 Picture from Photograph by the English Photographic Co., Athens XII. THE DISCOBOLUS (THE DISK-THROWER) 67 Picture from Photograph loaned by Edward Robinson, from the only negative known to exist