tailieunhanh - ARATRA PENTELICI. SEVEN LECTURES ON THE ELEMENTS OF SCULPTURE, GIVEN BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN MICHAELMAS TERM, 1870

I must pray the readers of the following Lectures to remember that the duty at present laid on me at Oxford is of an exceptionally complex character. Directly, it is to awaken the interest of my pupils in a study which they have hitherto found unattractive, and imagined to be useless; but more imperatively, it is to define the principles by which the study itself should be guided; and to vindicate their security against the doubts with which frequent discussion has lately incumbered a subject which all think themselves competent to discuss. The possibility of such vindication is, of. | ARATRA PENTELICI. SEVEN LECTURES ON THE ELEMENTS OF SCULPTURE GIVEN BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN MICHAELMAS TERM 1870. CONTENTS. PAGE Preface v LECTURE I. Of the Division of Arts 1 LECTURE II. idolatry 20 LECTURE III. Imagination 39 LECTURE IV. LIKENESS 67 LECTURE V. Structure 90 LECTURE VI. The School of Athens 114 LECTURE VII. THE Relation Between MICHAEL Angelo and Tintoret 132 LIST OF PLATES Facing Page I. Porch of San Zenone Verona 14 II. The Arethusa of Syracuse 15 III. The Warning to the Kings San Zenone Verona 15 IV. The Nativity of Athena 46 V. Tomb of the Doges Jacopo and Lorenzo Tiepolo 49 VI. Archaic Athena of Athens and Corinth 50 VII. Archaic Central and Declining Art of Greece 72 VIII. The Apollo of Syracuse and the Self-made Man 84 IX. Apollo Chrysocomes of Clazomens 85 X. Marble Masonry in the Duomo of Verona 100 XI. The First Elements of Sculpture. Incised outline and opened space 101 XII. Branch of Phillyrea 109 XIII. Greek Flat relief and sculpture by edged incision 111 XIV. Apollo and the Python. Heracles and the Nemean Lion 119 XV. Hera of Argos. Zeus of Syracuse 120 XVI. Demeter of Messene. Hera of Cnossus 121 XVII. Athena of Thurium. Siren Ligeia of Terina 121 XVIII. Artemis of Syracuse. Hera of Lacinian Cape 122 XIX. Zeus of Messene. Ajax of Opus 124 XX. Greek and Barbarian Sculpture 127 XXI. The Beginnings of Chivalry .