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Publisher’s note: The asterisks (*) at the end of the captions signal a commented work at the end of each chapter. 1000 Sculptures of Genius Contents Introduction The Classical World The Collapse of Rome and the Rise of Medieval Culture Renaissance and Baroque Europe: Naturalism and the Revival of Antiquity The Modern Age: From Neoclassicism to the Twentieth Century Antiquity Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque Modern Glossary Biographies Magdalena ABAKANOWICZ Alessandro ALGARDI Carl ANDRE Benedetto ANTELAMI Hans ARP Egid Quirin ASAM César BALDACCINI, called CESAR Nanni di BANCO Ernst BARLACH Richmond BARTHE Frédéric-Auguste BARTHOLDI Gian Lorenzo BERNINI Umberto BOCCIONI Giovanni BOLOGNA called GIAMBOLOGNA Fernando BOTERO Edmé BOUCHARDON Louise BOURGEOIS Constantin BRANCUSI Michelangelo BUONARROTI, called MICHELANGELO Pol BURY Melchiore CAFFA Jean-Jacques CAFFIERI Alexander CALDER CALLIMACHUS Alonzo CANO Antonio CANOVA Sir Anthony CARO Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX Benvenutto CELLINI Camille CLAUDEL Michel COLOMBE Charles Henri Joseph CORDIER Nicolas and Guillaume COUSTOU Charles-Antoine COYSEVOX Honoré DAUMIER Hilaire-Germain-Edgar DEGAS Andrea DELLA ROBBIA Luca DELLA ROBBIA DONATELLO Jean DUBUFFET Marcel DUCHAMP Raymond DUCHAMP-VILLON François DUQUESNOY Gregor ERHART Etienne Maurice FALCONET Armand FERNANDEZ, called ARMAN Naum GABO Lorenzo GHIBERTI Alberto GIACOMETTI François GIRARDON Jean GOUJON Horatio GREENOUGH Dame Barbara HEPWORTH Jean Antoine HOUDON Donald JUDD Juan de JUNI Katarzyna KOBRO Henri LAURENS Lord Frederick LEIGHTON LEOCHARES Sol LEWITT Jacques LIPSCHITZ LYSIPPOS Stefano MADERNO Aristide Joseph-Bonaventura MAILLOL MARISOL Gaspard and Balthazar MARSY Juan MARTINES MONTANES Henri MATISSE Guido MAZZONI Pedro de MENA Franz Xavier MESSERSCHMIDT Constantin MEUNIER Claude MICHEL, called CLODION George MINNE Francesco MOCHI Henry MOORE Hans MULTSCHER MYRON Bruce NAUMANN Claes OLDENBURG Augustin PAJOU Eduardo PAOLOZZI Giuseppe PENONE PHIDIAS Pablo Ruiz PICASSO Jean-Baptiste PIGALLE Germain PILON Andrea PlSANO Nicola PISANO POLYKLEITOS Jean-Jacques PRADIER (James PRADIER) PRAXITELES Antoine-Auguste PREAULT Barthelemy PRIEUR Francesco PRIMATICCIO Pierre PUGET Tilman RIEMENSCHNEIDER Auguste RODIN Pedro ROLDAN Antonio ROSSELLINO Medardo ROSSO François RUDE Auguste SAINT-GAUDENS Niki de SAINT-PHALLE Johann Gottfried SCHADOW Andreas SCHLUTER SKOPAS Claus SLUTER David SMITH William Wetmore STORY Veit STOSS Sophie TAEUBER-ARP TAKIS Jean TINGUELY Andrea del VERROCCHIO Adriaen de VRIES Ossip ZADKINE Chronology Antiquity Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque Modern Index