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

CONTENTS.

Rome—Emperors as collectors of works of art—Verres, Brutus, &c.—In-
fluence of Greek art on Romans—Demand for copies of celebrated statues
— Correct taste of the Augustan age—Renaissance of Greek art in Rome—
Names of Greek artists in Pliny—Polycles II.—The brazen Heracles in
the Capitol—The Hermaphrodite—Timarchides and Timocles—Attic
artists in Rome and Italy—Apollonius the Athenian—The torso of Heracles
in the Vatican—Apollonius, son of Archias—The 'Young satyr'at Pet-
worth—Cleomenes—'The Venus de' Medici'—Cleomenes II.—The so-
called ' Germanicus' in the Louvre—Altar of Iphigenia in Florence—C.
Avianus Evander—Diogenes of Athens—His Caryatids—Glycon of Athens
the Heracles Farnese—Antiochus—Statue of Minerva in Villa Ludovisi—
Critios and Nicolaus—The Canephpra; in Villa Albani—Salpion—Marble
crater at Naples—Sosibius—Vase in the Louvre ......

CHAPTER XLIX.
EXTANT WORKS OF GRAZCO-ROMAN PERIOD.

The Torso of Heracles—Theory of Heyne and Winckelmann—The Florentine
gem 'Teucer'—Restoration of Torso—Winckelmann's panegyric—The
Venus de' Medici by Cleomenes—The Chigi Venus—The Venus of the
Capitol—The 'Germanicus'?—The Heracles Farnese by Glycon—Winckel-
mann's criticism—The ' Heracles Mastai' in Vatican-—Pallas by Antiochus
in Villa Ludovisi—The Caryatid of Diogenes—Canephora of Criton and
Nicolaus—Reliefs on vases of Salpion and Sosibios—The sacrifice of
Iphigenia—The picture of Timanthes ........

CHAPTER L.
ARTISTS OF ASIA MINOR.

Agasias, sculptor of 'the Borghese Gladiator'—Heraclides—The Ares in the
Louvre—Archelaus of Priene—Apotheosis of Homer— Alexandres, Aristeas,
Zenon of Aphrodisias—Extant works of Asiatic Greeks—' The Borghese
Gladiator'—Venus of Melos, by Alexandres of Antiocheia?—Difficulty of
dating this noble work—Analysis—Different views respecting her attitude
and action—The two Centaurs by Aristeas and Papias—The Apotheosis of
Homer by Archelaus...........

CHAPTER LI.

EXTANT WORKS OF GRyECO-ROMAN PERIOD—(continued).

The 'Apollo Belvedere'—Winckelmann's rhapsody—The Steinhauser head-
Controversy on the motif-—The' Stroganoff Apollo'—Apollo and 'the White
Maidens'at Delphi—The ' Diane a la Bie/te' in the Louvre—Athene in
the Capitol—Technical skill displayed in Apollo Belvedere—Similarity in

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