Sculpture bibliography

General Handbooks
Introductory
Functions and Settings
Materials and Techniques
Artists, originals and copies
Archaic
Fifth-century BC
Fourth-century BC
Grave-reliefs
Portraiture

General Handbooks

Boardman, J., Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period (London, 1978).
_________, Greek Sculpture: the Classical Period (London, 1985).
Carpenter, R., Greek Sculpture (Chicago, 1971).
Stewart, A., Greek Sculpture (New Haven and London, 1990).
Lawrence, A.W., Classical Sculpture (1972).
Lullies, R. and Hirmer, M., Greek Sculpture (London, 1960).

Introductory

Private collections:

Michaelis, A., Ancient Marbles in Great Britain.
Haynes, D.E.L., The Arundel Marbles (1975).

Literary Sources:

Stuart-Jones, H., Passages from ancient authors (1895).
Jex-Blake, K. and Sellers, E., The Elder Pliny's chapters on the History of Art (1896).
Pollitt, J.J., The Art of Greece. 1400-31 BC (1990).
__________, The Ancient View of Greek Art (1974), esp. part 2.

Functions and settings

Sculpture on architecture:

Any architecture handbook, e.g. Berve, H. and Gruben, G., Greek Temples, Theatres and Shrines (1963).

Cult requirements:

Burkert, W., History of Greek Religion part II 5,3-4.

Funerary:

Kurtz, D.C. and Boardman, J., Greek Burial Customs (1971).

Materials and Techniques

Chapters in the basic handbooks:

Stewart, A., Greek Sculpture (New Haven and London, 1990).
Boardman, J., Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period (London, 1978).
_________, Greek Sculpture: the Classical Period (London, 1985).

Clay:

Higgins, R.A., Greek Terracottas (1967).

Marble analyses:

Renfrew, C., Annual of the British School at Athens 63, 45-66.
Ashmole, B., ibid. 65, 1-2.

Egypt and proportions:

Levin, K., American Journal of Archaeology 68, 13-28.
Ridgway, B., ibid. 70, 68-70.
Guralnick, E., ibid. 82, 461-72.

Marble:

Blumel, K., Greek Sculptors at Work (1969).
Adam, S., TheTechnique of Greek Sculpture (1966).

Bronze:

Rolley, C., Greek Bronzes (1986) ch.1.
Mattusch, C.C., Greek Bronze Statuary from the beginnings through the Fifth Century (1988).

Marble and Bronze:

Haynes, D., The Muses at Work (ed. C.Boulter, 1969) chs. 3, 4.

Artists, originals and copies

Names and signatures:

Chapters in the handbooks:

Stewart, A., Greek Sculpture (New Haven and London, 1990).
Boardman, J., Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period (London, 1978).
_________, Greek Sculpture: the Classical Period (London, 1985).

Payment:

Burford, A., in Parthenos and Parthenon (1963).
________, in Craftsmen in Greek and Roman Society (1972).

Copies:

Chapters in the handbooks:
Stewart, A., Greek Sculpture (New Haven and London, 1990).
Boardman, J., Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period (London, 1978).
_________, Greek Sculpture: the Classical Period (London, 1985).
Bieber, M., Ancient Copies (1977).
Ridgway, B., Roman Copies of Greek Sculpture (1984).

Greek statues in Rome:

Pollitt, J.J., The Art of Rome. c.753 BC-337 AD (1983).
_________, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 108 (1978) 155-74.

Pointing:

Richter, G.M.A., Ancient Italy (1955) 105-16.

Baiae plaster casts:

von Hees-Landwehr, C., Griechische Meisterwerke in romischen Abgussen (1982).

Archaic sculpture

Richter, G.M.A., Archaic Greek Art (1949). Lectures on the various centres of art.
_________, Kouroi (1960, enlarged 3rd ed. 1970). Definitive publication of standing nude male statues.
_________, Korai (1968). Comparable treatment of the draped females.
Payne, H. and Young, G.M., Archaic marble sculptures from the Acropolis (1950). Masterly criticism of the most important sculptures from the Acropolis, with excellent photographs.
Ashmole, B., Late Archaic and Early Classical Greek Sculpture in South Italy and Sicily (British Academy Lecture, 1934).
Harrison, E., Athenian Agora XI: Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture. Introductory chapter on chronology.
Ridgway, B.S., The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture (1977). Many unorthodox views.

Fifth-century sculpture

Ashmole, B., Architect and Sculptor in Ancient Greece (1972). Illuminating lectures on the sculptures from Olympia, the Parthenon and the Mausoleum.
Ridgway, B.S., The Severe Style in Greek Sculpture (1970). Generally clear and sensible.
Ashmole, B. and Yalouris, N., Olympia (1967). Excellent photographs, useful text.
Ridgway, B.S., Fifth-century Styles in Greek Sculpture (1981). Incomplete and sometimes unorthodox coverage.
Morgan, C.H., Hesperia Vol.31 (1962) 210-35 and Vol.32 (1963) 91-108. The architectural sculpture of the Hephaisteion.Greece and Rome, supplement 1963: Parthenos and Parthenon. Includes accounts of the organisation of work and the political background.
Brommer, F., The Sculptures of the Parthenon (1979). Excellent photographs with brief, factual text.
Robertson, M., The Parthenon Frieze (1975). Photographs of the whole frieze, with brief text.
Leipen, N., Athena Parthenos: a reconstruction (1971)
Thompson, H.A., Hesperia Vol.21 (1952) 47ff. Reliefs attributed to the Altar of Pity in the Athenian Agora.
Carpenter, R., The sculpture of the Nike Temple parapet (1929). Discussion and attribution of all the surviving sculptures.

Fourth-century sculpture

Ashmole, B., Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol.71 (1951) 13ff. Discussion of the Demeter of Cnidus and the identification of a master's style.
Bieber, M., The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age (1955). The first chapters.
Waywell, G.B., Annual of the British School at Athens Vol.66 (1971) 373-82. The Piraeus Athena and Athena Mattei.
Stewart, A.F., Skopas of Paros (1977). Full account of the Tegea sculptures and attempt to reconstruct the artist's work and career.

Grave-reliefs

Richter, G.M.A., Archaic Attic Gravestones (1961). All the Athenian archaic grave reliefs collected and studied.
Friis Johansen, K., The Attic grave-reliefs of the Classical period (1951). An excellent general discussion: subjects rather than styles.

Portraiture

Richter, G.M.A., The Portraits of the Greeks (1966); but the concise edition revised by R.R.R.Smith (1984) is more useful.