CHAPTER IX.

CANOVA, THORWALDSEN, AND OTHER RECENT SCULPTORS, 235

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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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

From the Harpy Monument, London, 25

Figures from the Pediment of the Temple of Minerva, at Ægina, 27

Archaistic Artemis at Naples, 28

The Discobolus (Myron), 30

Athenian Coins with the Minerva Promachos, 34

Coin of Elis with the Olympian Zeus, 36

Bust of Jupiter found at Otricoli, 37

Torso of a Statue of Theseus (?), 38

From the Frieze of the Parthenon, 43

The Five Central Figures, 44

Youths Preparing to join the Cavalcade, 45

Horsemen Starting, 46

Procession of Cavalry, 46

Procession of Chariots, 47

Train of Musicians and Youths, 47

Cows for Sacrifice, 48

Train of Noble Maidens, 48

Head of Asclepius (in the British Museum), 50

A Wounded Amazon (Cresilas), 52

Statue of Pericles (Cresilas), 52

Eirene and the Young Plutus (Cephisodotus), 56

Portrait of Mausolus, 57

From the Frieze of the Mausoleum, 58

The Eros of Centocelle, 60

Niobe and her Youngest Daughter, 62

Brother and Sister, 63

The Eldest Daughter, 64

A Niobid, 65

Ganymede (after Leochares), 66

Monument of Lysicrates (Athens), 67

Bacchus and Lion (from the Lysicrates Monument), 68

The Apoxyomenos of Lysippus, 69

The Laocoon Group, 75

The Farnese Bull, 77

Gallic Warrior (Venice), 78

The Dying Gaul, 79

Boy and Goose, 80

Spinario, 81

Venus de' Medici, 86

The Farnesian Hercules, 89

The Apollo Belvedere, 90

Head of Apollo Belvedere, 91

The Steinhäuser Head, 91

The Stroganoff Apollo, 92

Diane à la Biche, 95

Athena of the Capitol, 96

Triumphal Procession from Arch of Titus, 97

From the Reliefs of Trajan's Column, 99

Portrait of Sophocles, 101

Statue of Augustus, 102

Agrippina the Elder, 103

Statue of St. Peter, 106

From the Cathedra of Maximianus, 109

Diptych (Zurich), 110

From the Façade of Chartres Cathedral, 113

From the North Transept of Rheims Cathedral, 118

From the West Façade of Strasburg Cathedral, 120

Duke Robert of Normandy, 121

Ivory Relief (Hunting Scene), 124

Relief by Nicola Pisano (Lucca), 128

Relief from the Pulpit at Pisa (Nicola Pisano), 129

Campo Santo of Pisa (Giovanni Pisano), 132

Relief by Jacopo della Quercia (Bologna), 138

From the Eastern Gates (showing compartments 6, 8, and 10), 141

The Annunciation (Donatello), 143

Statue of St. George (Donatello), 144

Dancing Boys (Luca della Robbia), 147

Boy with Dolphin (Verocchio), 149

Statue of Colleoni (Verocchio), 150

Terra-cottas from the Ospedale Grande (Milan), 156

Count Eberhard von Grumbach (Rimpar), 169

Justice, 170

The Three Wise Virgins, 170

Tomb of St. Sebald (Nuremberg), 172

Peter Vischer's Statue, 173

St. Sebald and the Burning Icicles (Vischer), 174

Peter (Vischer), 175

John (Vischer), 175

Man and Geese (Labenwolf), 176

Pharisee, Levite (Rustici), 183

Bacchus (Jacopo Sansovino), 185

Perseus (Benvenuto Cellini), 191

Michael Angelo's Angel (Bologna), 197

Pietà (Michael Angelo), 199

Michael Angelo's David, 201

Giuliano de' Medici (Michael Angelo), 205

Statue of Moses (Michael Angelo), 207

Mercury (Giovanni da Bologna), 215

Relief by Berruguete (Valladolid), 217

Rape of Proserpine (Bernini), 225

Caryatide (Quellinus), 231

Heads of Dying Warriors (Schlüter), 232

The Great Elector (Schlüter), 233

The Three Graces (Canova), 241

Hebe (Canova), 246

Ariadne and the Panther (Dannecker), 249

Jason (Thorwaldsen), 256

Ganymede and the Eagle (Thorwaldsen), 260

The Three Graces (Thorwaldsen), 261

Statue of Queen Louise (Rauch), 270

Nymph (by Bosio), 273

SCULPTURE.