THE SCULPTURE COLLECTION

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An absolute treasure trove of over 130 vintage books compiled together for the first time on one unique DVD covering all aspects of sculpting and sculpture.

Discover the history of sculpture around the world and throughout the ages – from the Ancient Egyptians and the Greek masters, to the Italian Renaissance sculptors and modern American artists. From techniques for clay modelling to studies of marble masterpieces, this collection is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in sculpture. Uncover the history, philosophy and science behind the various methods of sculpting. This wonderful collection has it all!

Some of these books are extremely rare and will provide a valuable reference archive for anyone with an interest in art and sculpture. Most of the titles are written in English with additional works in French, German and Latin. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

This wonderful collection of 134 rare and out-of-print books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities, British museum Vols. 1 - 3 by A. H. Smith (1892)

A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome Vol. 1 (1912)

A guide to the Egyptian galleries (sculpture). With 39 plates and 46 illustrations in the text (1901)

A handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture by E. Von Mach (1905)

A handbook of Greek sculpture by E. A. Gardner (1905)

A handbook of modern French sculpture by D. C. Eaton (1913)

A history of ancient sculpture by L. M. Mitchell (1883)

A history of European and American sculpture from the early Christian period to the present day Vol. 1 by C. R. Post (1921)

A history of Greek sculpture - from the earliest times down to the age of Pheidias by A. S. Murray (1880)

A history of Greek sculpture by R. B. Richardson (1911)

A history of Greek sculpture Vols. 1 & 2 by A. S. Murray (1890)

A history of sculpture by E. H. Short (1907)

A history of sculpture by H. N. Fowler (1916)

A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman - with one hundred and sixty illustrations by G. Redford (1882)

A text-book of the history of sculpture by A. Marquand (1899)

American masters of sculpture - being brief appreciations of some American sculptors and of some phases of sculpture in America by C. H. Caffin (1913)

An outline history of sculpture for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous illustrations by C. E. Clement (1893)

Ancient marbles in Great Britain by A. Michaelis (1882)

Antique marbles in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America by J. Pijoan (1917)

Aratra Pentelici; seven lectures on the elements of sculpture, given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1870 by J. Ruskin (1890)

Baroque architecture and sculpture in Italy by C. Ricci (1912)

Catalogue of the exhibition of the National Sculpture Society under the auspices of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Fifth Regiment Armory (1908)

Claus Sluter et la sculpture bourguignonne au XVe siècle par A. Kleinclausz (1905)

Clay work; a handbook for teachers by K. M. Lester (1908)

De la sculpture antique et moderne par L. Menard (1868)

Description des sculptures modernes - Musée imperiál du Louvre (1856)

Development of sculpture; a preliminary paper by J. D. McGuire (1894)

Die Bildnerei der Etrusker by W. Hausenstein (1922)

Die italienische Plastik by W. Bode (1902)

Die Plastik der Ägypter by H. Fechheimer (1914)

Die Plastik Sienas im Quattrocento by P. Schubring (1907)

Disegno del Doni - partito in piv ragionamenti, ne qvali si tratta della scoltvra et pittvra  de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest'arti by A. F. Doni (1549)

Egyptian sculptures in the British museum by E. A. Wallis Budge (1914)

Exhibition of the works of the sculptor O'Connor by A. O'Connor (1917)

Familiar sketches of sculpture and sculptors Vols. 1 & 2 by H. F. S. Lee (1854)

Famous sculptors and sculpture by J. A. C. Shedd (1896)

Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers by E. Singleton (1910)

Figurative terra-cotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. centuries B. C. by E. D. Van Buren (1921)

Florentine sculptors of the renaissance by W. Von Bode (1909)

French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century by E. Dilke (1900)

French art - classic and contemporary painting and sculpture by W. C. Brownell (1901)

French sculpture of the thirteenth century seventy-eight examples of masterpieces of medieval art by A. Gardner (1915)

Graeco-ägyptische Koroplastik by C. M. Kaufmann (1915)

Great American sculptures by W. J. Clark (1878)

Greek & Roman sculpture by A Furtwangler (1914)

Greek and Roman sculpture; a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture by W. C. Perry (1882)

Greek architecture by T. R. Smith (1892)

Greek sculpture - a collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles, with introduction and interpretation by E. M. Hurll (1901)

Greek sculpture and modern art by C. Waldstein (1914)

Greek sculpture by C. C. Edgar (1903)

Greek terra-cotta statuettes - their origin, evolution, and uses by M. B. Huish (1900)

Hellenistic sculpture by G. Dickins (1920)

Histoire de la sculpture grecque Vols. 1 & 2 by M. Colignon (1892)

Historical handbook of Italian sculpture by C. C. Perkins (1883)

History of sculpture and painting. Topical lessons with specific references to valuable books by C. S. Farrar (1879)

History of sculpture, painting, and architecture by J. S. Memes (1834)

How to understand sculpture by M. Thomas (1911)

Il Museo capitolino e li monumenti antichi  che sono nel Campidoglio Vols. 1 & 2 by P. P. Montagnani-Mirabili (1820)

Instructions in the art of modeling in clay by A. L. Vago (1880)

Introduction to Greek sculpture by L. E. Upcott (1887)

Italian sculptors - being a history of sculpture in northern, southern, and eastern Italy by C. C. Perkins (1868)

Italian sculpture of the Middle Ages and period of the revival of art (1862)

Italian sculpture of the Renaissance by L. J. Freeman (1901)

La jeune sculpture française by A. Salmon (1919)

La sculpture antique by P. Paris (1889)

La sculpture aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles par H. Rousseau (1911)

L'art by A. Rodin (1911)

L'art; entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell (1911)

Lectures on sculpture by J. Flaxman (1829)

Les musées d'Europe. La sculpture au Louvre; par G. Geffroy (1900)

Les proportions du corps humain - mesurées sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquité par G. Audran (1683)

Les statues funéraires dans l'art grec par M. Collignon (1911)

Letter from Antonio Canova; and Two memoirs read to the Royal Institute of France on the sculptures in the collection of the Earl of Elgin; tr. from the French and Italian (1816)

L'Homme dans la sculpture romane par l. Brehier (192-)

Manuel du peintre et du sculpteur Vol. 1 by L. C. Arsenne (1833)

Marbles and bronzes; fifty plates from selected subjects in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities by A. H. Smith (1914)

Masterpieces of Greek sculpture; a series of essays on the history of art by A. Furtwangler (1895)

Modelling and sculpture by A. Toft (1911)

Modelling; a guide for teachers and students Vols. 1 - 3 by E. Lanteri (1902)

Monograph on stone-carving in Bengal by E. B. Havell (1906)

Museum of the Vatican - with 121 illustrations (1910)

Negerplastik by C. Einstein (1920)

Notes on Greek sculpture - an introduction to the collection of casts by K. T. Frost (1912)

Portraits antiques par A. Hekler (1913)

Portraits in plaster by L. Hutton (1894)

R.B.S. Modern British sculpture by The Royal Society of British Sculptors (1900)

Raccolta di statue antiche trovate recentemente, o spiegate insignite con nuova denominazione (1817)

Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine Vols. 1, 2, 4 & 6 by S. Reinach (1908)

Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine by A. Strong (1907)

Romanische Plastik in Deutschland by E. Luthgen (1923)

Schwäbische Skulptur der Spätgotik by K. Grober (1922)

Sculpturae veteris admiranda, sive, Delineatio vera perfectissimarum eminentissimarumque statuarum by J. Von Sandrart (1680)

Sculpture in Spain by A. F. Calvert (1912)

Sculpture, Egyptian – Assyrian – Greek - Roman. With numerous illustrations, a map of ancient Greece and a chronological list of ancient sculptors and their works by G. Redford (1888)

Sculpture, renaissance and modern by L. Scott (1891)

Sculptured tombs of Hellas by P. Gardner (1896)

Sculptures from Academy Architecture, 1909-1912 by A. Koch (1912)

Sculptures of India (19--)

Sculptures of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the east entrance hall and north aisle (1880)

Segmenta nobilium signorum e statuaru by F. Perrier (1638)

Select passages from ancient writers illustrative of the history of Greek sculpture by H. S. Jones (1895)

Six Greek sculptors by E. A. Gardner (1910)

Specimens of antient sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman Vol. 2 by R. P. Knight (1809)

Technique of sculpture by W. O. Partridge (1895)

The appreciation of sculpture - a handbook by R. Sturgiss (1905)

The art of modelling in clay and wax by T. C. Simmonds (1892)

The British school of sculpture, illustrated by twenty engravings from the finest works of deceased masters of the art, and fifty woodcuts by W. B. Scott (1872)

The English connoisseur - containing an account of whatever is curious in painting & sculpture in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England Vol. 2 by T. Martyn (1766)

The evolution of Italian sculpture by D. L. Crawford (1909)

The history of American sculpture by L. Taft (1903)

The Mind of the artist - thoughts and sayings of painters and sculptors on their art by C. Binyon (1909)

The renaissance of sculpture in Belgium by O. G. Destree (1895)

The sculpture and mural decorations of the exposition - a pictorial survey of the art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition described by S. Perry (1915)

The way of the clay; a brief outline course in clay modeling with illustrated designs (1909)

The Xanthian marbles by C. Fellows (1843)

Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci - nuovamente date in luce, colla vita dell'istesso autore (1733)

Tuscan sculptors - their lives, works and times by C. C. Perkins (1864)

Tuscan sculpture of the fifteenth century; a collection of sixteen pictures reproducing works by Donatello, the Della Robbia, Mina da Fiesole, and others by E. M. Hurll (1902)

Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting by G. Vasari (1907)

Viśvakarmā ; examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft by A. K. Coomaraswamy (1914)

What sculpture to see in Europe by L. M. Bryant (1920)

Wonders of sculpture by L. Viardot (1872)

Zorach explains sculpture, what it means and how it is made by W. Zorach (1947)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in sculpture and the arts – a valuable reference library full of information for a very small price!

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