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- 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture - An illustrated history of sculpture in Italy, by period. Includes author and sculptor indexes.
www.thais.it/scultura/default_uk.htm
- Classical Sculpture - Illustrated essays by Professor Sir John Boardman on the major styles and periods of Greek and Roman sculpture using examples from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
lannes.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/Sculpture/ScriptGeneral/ClassFrameset1.asp
- End of Europe's Middle Ages: Sculpture - Part of a University of Calgary tutorial with photographs and narrative from Gothic sculpture as an architectural component to free-standing Italian Renaissance sculpture.
www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/art3.html
- Glasgow - City of Sculpture - Over 200 biographies of sculptors and architects, with hundreds of photographs covering the history of sculpture in Glasgow.
www.glasgowsculpture.com
- Indian Sculpture and Temple Ornamentation - Images and historical notes by Shishir Thadani relating to Indian sculpture and temple carvings, from Image India.
members.tripod.com/~IMAGE_INDIA/sculpture.html
- National Park Service Monuments Program - Provides comprehensive assistance to parks and other constituents in the US in the care of public sculpture and monuments. Services, publications, training.
www.nps.gov/phso/monuments
- Parthenon Marbles - Ian Swindale and his students in Crete present the history of the magnificent frieze and sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens and the campaign to return to Greece those now in the British Museum.
www.greece.org/parthenon/marbles
- Sculptured Stones of Early Medieval Scotland - The University of Glasgow research project aims to create a record of these monuments using traditional and digital techniques, including three dimensional modelling.
www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Archaeology/resources/SSEMS_web/default.html
- Sensuality in Memorial Art - Illustrated and referenced essay on the role of sensuality and the classic nude figure in memorial and cemetery sculpture around the world. From Northstar Gallery.
northstargallery.com/pages/Sensualilty.htm
- The Ancient Reception of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos - Essay by Kenneth D.S. Lapatin on the visual evidence of the sculpture of Athena Parthenos by Pheidias and the impact it had on classical Athens.
www.open.ac.uk/Arts/CC96/lapatin.htm
- The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland - A searchable text and image database. A British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art.
www.crsbi.ac.uk
- The Creative Art of Oscar Bach - The life and work of German-American metal craftsman, Oscar Bruno Bach (1884-1957). Includes thumbnail images of selected works, obituary, articles, Friends of Oscar Bach.
www.oscarbach.org
- The History of the Caproni Casts - Pietro Caproni immigrated to Boston in the late 1800s, bringing with him the Italian craft of classical sculpture reproduction.
www.capronicasts.org
- The Tello Obelisk - Photographs, description and discussion by James Q. Jacobs of this prehistoric carved granite monolith from Chavín de Huantár in Peru, with bibliography.
www.jqjacobs.net/andes/tello.html
- Tribute to Four Sculptors from Zimbabwe - John and Bernard Takawira, Brighton Sango and Henry Munyaradzi created a vital African movement in modern sculpture with their work in serpentine. On-line exhibition.
www.tamarin.com/shona/shondire1.html
- Wodan Still Speaks - Photographs by Guido Deseijn and Gerda Verheeke of Romanesque and Gothic sculptures on medieval religious buildings in Europe, suspected to represent the old pagan god Wodan or Odin.
www.angelfire.com/retro/wodanspeaks
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