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| The Virgin. From Michael Angelo’s “Pieta.” St. Peter’s, Rome | |
| Diana (Archaistic). The National Museum, Naples | 12 |
| Dedicatory Statue (Archaic). The Acropolis Museum, Athens | 12 |
| Harmodius. National Museum, Naples | 14 |
| The Charioteer. Delphi Museum | 14 |
| The Spartan Girl. The Vatican, Rome | 18 |
| The Doryphorus. National Museum, Naples | 18 |
| Myron’s Discobolus. The Ashmolean, Oxford | 22 |
| Theseus. British Museum. | |
| A figure from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon | 30 |
| The Three Fates. British Museum. | |
| A group from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon | 30 |
| From The Parthenon Frieze. British Museum. | |
| Scenes from the Panathenaic Procession | 32 |
| Zeus. The Vatican, Rome. Found at Otricoli | 36 |
| Hera. Terme Museum, Rome. From the Villa Ludovisi | 36 |
| Hera. The Vatican, Rome | 40 |
| The Mausoleum Charioteer. British Museum, London | 48 |
| Niobe. The Glyptothek, Munich | 50 |
| Menelaus and Patroclus. Loggia de Lonzi, Florence | 52 |
| Ares Ludovisi. The Vatican, Rome | 52 |
| The “Dexileus” Relief. The Ceramicus, Athens | 54 |
| The Hermes (head). By Praxiteles. Olympia | 58 |
| The “Eros” Torso. The Vatican, Rome. Found at Centocelle | 60 |
| Aphrodite of Cnidus. The Vatican, Rome | 62 |
| The Apoxyomenus. The Vatican, Rome | 68 |
| Meleager. The Vatican, Rome | 68 |
| The Sarcophagus of Alexander. Constantinople | 74 |
| Phocion. The Vatican, Rome | 76 |
| Pericles. Pericles. | 78 |
| The Head of Alexander (after Lysippus). British Museum | 78 |
| The Tyche of Antioch. The Vatican, Rome | 86 |
| The Dying Gaul. The Capitoline Museum, Rome | 88 |
| The Triumph of Athena. From the Altar of Zeus, Pergamus. Berlin | 92 |
| The Laocoon Group. The Vatican, Rome | 94 |
| The Nile. The Vatican, Rome | 96 |
| The Farnese Hercules. National Museum, Naples | 100 |
| The Cerigotto Bronze. The Museum, Athens | 102 |
| The Apollo Belvedere. The Vatican, Rome | 106 |
| Venus of Medici. The Uffizi, Florence | 106 |
| Venus of Milo. The Louvre, Paris | 112 |
| Boy strangling a Goose. The Louvre, Paris | 114 |
| Child with Lantern. Terme Museum, Rome | 114 |
| The Boxer (Bronze). Terme Museum, Rome | 120 |
| Orestes and Electra (pseudo-archaic). National Museum, Naples | 128 |
| Augustus. The Vatican, Rome | 128 |
| Nerva (Head). The Vatican, Rome | 132 |
| Antinous. The Vatican, Rome | 136 |
| Marcus Aurelius. Rome | 138 |
| A Gothic Panel: “The Last Judgment.” A bas-relief from the porch of Bourges Cathedral | 150 |
| Giovanni Pisano: “The Adoration of the Magi.” A panel from the pulpit of the Pisan Duomo. Now in the Museo Civico, Pisa | 150 |
| Niccola Pisano: “The Pulpit at Pisa” | 156 |
| Lorenzo Ghiberti: “The Gates of Paradise.” The Baptistery, Florence | 164 |
| Donatello: “Saint George.” From the church of Or San Michele, Florence | 172 |
| Donatello: “David.” The Bargello, Florence | 174 |
| Jacopo della Quercia: The Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto. The Cathedral, Lucca | 176 |
| Luca della Robbia: “The Visitation.” Pistoja | 178 |
| Andrea Verocchio: “The Doubting Thomas.” A group for the exterior of Or San Michele, Florence | 180 |
| Verocchio and Leopardi: The Colleoni Monument. Venice | 182 |
| Michael Angelo: “David.” Academy of Fine Arts, Florence | 184 |
| Michael Angelo: “The Pieta.” St. Peter’s, Rome | 186 |
| Michael Angelo: Monument of Lorenzo. Medici Chapel, Florence | 186 |
| Michael Angelo: “Moses.” A figure designed for the Tomb of Julius II. | 188 |
| Michael Angelo: Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino. The Medici Chapel, Florence | 192 |
| Michael Angelo: “Night.” From the monument to Giuliano, Duke of Nemours. The Medici Chapel, Florence | 194 |
| Michael Angelo: “Dawn.” From the monument to Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino. The Medici Chapel, Florence | 194 |
| Benvenuto Cellini: “Perseus.” The Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence | 204 |
| Giovanni Bologna: “Mercury.” The Bargello, Florence | 204 |
| Giovanni Bologna: “The Rape of the Sabine Women.” The Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence | 208 |
| Giovanni Bernini: “Apollo and Daphne.” From the Borghese Gallery, Rome | 210 |
| Giovanni Bernini: “The Ecstatic Vision of St. Theresa.” The church of S. Maria della Vittoria, Rome | 210 |
| Peter Vischer: “King Arthur.” Innsbruck | 224 |
| Goujon: “The Diana” from Anet. The Louvre, Paris | 230 |
| Puget: “The Immaculate Conception.” Genoa | 234 |
| Girardon: “Apollo and Nymphs.” Versailles | 236 |
| Pigalle: “Mercury.” The Louvre, Paris | 238 |
| Falconet: “L’Amour Menaçant.” The Louvre, Paris | 238 |
| Clodion: “Satyr with Flute” | 240 |
| Houdon: “Diana.” The Louvre, Paris | 242 |
| Houdon: “Voltaire” (bust). The Louvre, Paris | 244 |
| Antonio Canova: Pauline Borghese as “Venus Victrix.” Villa Borghese, Rome | 248 |
| Antonio Canova: “Cupid and Psyche.” Villa Carlotta, Lake of Como | 248 |
| Bertel Thorvaldsen: “Venus.” Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth | 252 |
| François Rude: The Marseillaise Relief. Paris | 254 |
| John Flaxman: “Satan and the Archangel Michael.” From the model in South Kensington | 260 |
| Antoine Barye: “Centaur and Lapith.” The Louvre, Paris | 264 |
| Jean Baptiste Carpeaux: “The Dance.” Opera House, Paris | 268 |
| Antoine Idrac: “Mercury Inventing the Caduceus.” The Luxembourg, Paris | 270 |
| Paul Dubois: “St. John the Baptist.” The Luxembourg, Paris | 270 |
| Jules Dalou: “The Triumph of Silenus.” Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris | 272 |
| Auguste Rodin: “The Kiss.” The Luxembourg, Paris | 276 |
| Auguste Rodin: “The Thinker.” The Pantheon, Paris | 278 |
| John Gibson: “Hylas and the Nymphs.” Tate Gallery, London | 282 |
| Alfred Stevens: Figure from the Fireplace, Dorchester House, London | 286 |
| Lord Leighton: “Athlete and Python.” Tate Gallery | 288 |
| Thomas Brock: “Eve.” The Tate Gallery, London | 290 |
| Hamo Thornycroft: “The Mower.” Liverpool | 290 |
| Meunier (Belgian School): “The Mower” | 292 |
| Alfred Gilbert: “Saint George.” From the Clarence Memorial, Windsor | 296 |
| Onslow Ford: “Egyptian Singer.” The Tate Gallery, London | 298 |
| Harry Bates: “Pandora.” The Tate Gallery, London | 300 |
| J. M. Swan: “Orpheus” | 300 |
| George J. Frampton: “Mysteriarch” | 302 |
