SCULPTURE: AND THE PLASTIC ART. COMPILED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF By J. į "AND MARBLE BREATHES RESPONSIVE TO THE THOUGHT AND TOUCH OF HIM, BOSTON: 1865, March 7, 73. exchange mes. Com Walker (95.6.1814) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by JOHN P. JEWETT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. ANDOVER: J. D. FLAGG AND W. H. WARDWELL, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS. INTRODUCTION. THE favorable reception of the volume entitled a History of the Art of Painting, has induced its compiler to publish one on Sculpture, as a companion to the former. Like its precursor, it claims little originality, but aims only to present, in a concentrated form, the materials collected from the works of others. The preparation of these volumes was not commenced with a view to publication. The compiler having deeply felt, during his tour on the continent, the importance of a more particular acquaintance with the history of artists and their works, in order to appreciate their merits, determined before revisiting Europe, to procure such information as might be gained from a careful study of those authors who had written upon the subject. In the intervals of leisure from other occupations, he accordingly began a course of reading, first on Painting, and afterwards on Sculpture, making copious extracts from all sources; transcribing a fact here, and a memorandum there- a critical notice of a work of art in one place, and a biographical sketch of the artist in another. But this desultory procedure served to encumber, rather than to aid him ; and he soon found that the only way to render his labors avail able, was to methodize and arrange his chaotic material. These books are the result of this effort; and in submitting them to the reader, he humbly hopes that, while serving as a guide to himself, they may not prove useless to others, who, like him, may find themselves groping, if not blindly, yet far from clear-sighted, amid the countless productions of genius which enrich the Galleries of Art in Europe. The volume upon Sculpture terminates the self-imposed task of the compiler; and should any lover of art derive as much gratification from examining his cabinet, as he has from collecting and arranging it; or should he afford one more element of pleasure to the European traveller, his purpose will be fully answered. BOSTON, DECEMBER, 1849. T. C. LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS, EXAMINED WITH REFER ENCE TO THE COMPILATION OF THE WORK. Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: by the Society of the Dilettanti. London, 1809. Müller's Ancient Art, and its Remains. Translated by J. Leitch. London, 1847. Lectures on Sculpture: by J. Flaxman. London, 1829. Cicognara's History of Sculpture. 7 vols. Prato. 1823. Sketches of the History of Christian Art: by Lord Lindsay. 3 vols. London, 1847. Antiquities of Nubia: by F. C. Gau. Stuttgart, 1822. Discoveries in Asia Minor: by F. V. J. Arundell. 2 vols. London, 1834. Narrative of Operations and recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia : by G. Belzoni. London, 1822. The Antiquities of Athens: by J. Stuart and N. Rivett. 4 vols. London, 1762. History of Art: by D' Agincourt. 6 vols. Paris, 1823. Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 by Mrs Hamilton Gray. London. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria: by George Dennis. 2 vols. London, 1848. Historical Dictionary of the distinguished professors of the Fine Arts 1829. Observations on Italy: by J. Bell. London, 1825. Life of Michael Angelo Buonarotti: by R. Duppa. London, 1807. A* |
