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THE FINE ARTS.
HISTORY

OF

SCULPTURE, PAINTING,

AND

ARCHITECTURE.

BY J. S. MEMES, LL. D.

BOSTON:
CLAPP AND BROADERS,
SCHOOL STREET
1834.



TO

THE VERY REVEREND

WILLIAM JACK, D.D.

PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY AND KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN;
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF
EARLY KINDNESS AND CONTINUED FRIENDSHIP.

AND

AS A SINCERE THOUGH INADEQUATE TRIBUTE
OF MOST PROFOUND RESPECT
FOR HIS
VIRTUES, LEARNING, TALENTS, AND INTEGRITY,
THIS VOLUME,
WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST ESTEEM,
IS INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
Taste—Principles of Imitative Art1
SCULPTURE.
CHAPTER I.
Egyptian and Oriental Sculpture—Indian Monuments15
CHAPTER II.
Early Schools of Greece—Perfection of Material Art34
CHAPTER III.
Ideal Art—Phidias—Elgin Marbles—Methods of Composition Among the Greek Sculptors49
CHAPTER IV.
School of Beauty—Lysippus and Praxiteles—Historical Remarks60
CHAPTER V.
Sculpture in Ancient Italy—Etruscan Art—Roman Busts—Decline69
CHAPTER VI.
Revival of Sculpture in Italy—Italian Republics—Influence of Liberty—Early Schools of Modern Art79
CHAPTER VII.
Michael Angelo and his Contemporaries84
CHAPTER VIII.
School of Bernini—Decline of Sculpture—Causes of Decay94
CHAPTER IX.
Revival—Canova—Thorwaldsen—Flaxman—Conclusion101
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