Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER L

I NTRO DUCTION.

ART IN GENERAL.

Definition of true art—The same idea expressed by different arts—Schclling
on the relation between art and nature—Plastic art—Greek art—Causes
of its unrivalled excellence—Greek love of beauty—Gymnastics—Cheiro-
nomy—The nude—Greek dress—Influence of religion on Greek art—
Monotheism unfavourable to art—Jewish and Christian art—Greek Theo-
gony—Imperfections of Greek gods—Dread of age and death—Achilles in
the Shades—Demigods ...........

FIRST PERIOD.

FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF ART IN GREECE
TO OL. 70, B.C. 500.

CHAPTER II.

MYTHICAL ART.

History supplemented by fable—Gods of the Pelasgi —On the supposed
Oriental and Egyptian origin of Greek deities—Astarte-Aphrodite—
Symbols—The Aneiconic period—' Stocks and stones 1—Xoana—Hennas—
Sanctity of ancient types—Art guilds—The Dactyls, Telchines, &c—Dae-
dalus—The Dasdalids and wood-carving —Invention of various implements
-Celebrity of Daidalus—The 'Chorus of Ariadne'in Homer—Mythical
artists—Argus of Argos, and Epeius of Phocis—Prehomeric period—Cyclo-
pean masonry—The Gasterocheires—The ' Treasury of Atreus 1 and the
'Lion Gate' at Mycena;—Discoveries of Dr. Schliemann—Niobe on
Mount Sipylus ............