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An illustrated history of sculpture in Italy, by period. Includes author and sculptor indexes.
http://www.thais.it/scultura/default_uk.htm
Glass sculptor John Robinson describes how he reproduced in glass Michelangelo's relief sculpture of the Madonna and Child, known as the Pitti Tondo. Includes a history of the Pitti Tondo.
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/jr/bluemadonna/blue-madonna.html
The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map showing the counties covered by each volume.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/
Belgian Africanist Sculptor.
http://www.milstaingallery.com
Part of a University of Calgary tutorial with photographs and narrative from Gothic sculpture as an architectural component to free-standing Italian Renaissance sculpture.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/art3.html
Over 200 biographies of sculptors and architects, with hundreds of photographs covering the history of sculpture in Glasgow.
http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/
Educational guide to the history of sculpture by Jack Bookbinder covering everything from the statues of ancient Greece to modern American monuments.
http://www.artfaces.com/artkids/sculpture.htm
Images and historical notes by Shishir Thadani relating to Indian sculpture and temple carvings, from Image India.
http://members.tripod.com/~IMAGE_INDIA/sculpture.html
A collection of people's memories and photographs of the Peter Pan sculpture from Liverpool's Sefton Park.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/hamlyn/peterpan
This meteorite collection includes ancient Chinese artifacts sculpted from meteorite. Photographs and descriptions.
http://www.geocities.com/meteoritetaipei/
Research of Dr. Reuben Fowkes on monumental sculpture, socialist realism and communist statues in post-war Eastern Europe, as well as contemporary visual arts.
http://www.reubenfowkes.net/thesis/thesis.htm
Essay by Gail Lang on the history of sculpture, including the Italian masters Michelangelo and Donatello.
http://www.pride-net.com/1998/april/sculpture/history.htm
The University of Glasgow research project aims to create a record of these monuments using traditional and digital techniques, including three dimensional modelling.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Archaeology/resources/SSEMS_web/default.html
Illustrated and referenced essay on the role of sensuality and the classic nude figure in memorial and cemetery sculpture around the world. From Northstar Gallery.
http://northstargallery.com/pages/Sensualilty.htm
A searchable text and image database. A British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art.
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/
Photographs, description and discussion by James Q. Jacobs of this prehistoric carved granite monolith from Chav?n de Huant?r in Peru, with bibliography.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/andes/tello.html
John and Bernard Takawira, Brighton Sango and Henry Munyaradzi created a vital African movement in modern sculpture with their work in serpentine. On-line exhibition.
http://www.tamarin.com/shona/shondire1.html
Photographs by Guido Deseijn and Gerda Verheeke of Romanesque and Gothic sculptures on medieval religious buildings in Europe, suspected to represent the old pagan god Wodan or Odin.
http://www.angelfire.com/retro/wodanspeaks/