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Links
City Creatures
http://www.geocities.com/city_creatures/
Gallery of photographs of the carvings found on buildings around the world.
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map showing the counties covered by each volume.
End of Europe's Middle Ages: Sculpture
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/art3.html
Part of a University of Calgary tutorial with photographs and narrative from Gothic sculpture as an architectural component to free-standing Italian Renaissance sculpture.
Glasgow - City of Sculpture
http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/
Over 200 biographies of sculptors and architects, with hundreds of photographs covering the history of sculpture in Glasgow.
History of Sculpture
http://www.artfaces.com/artkids/sculpture.htm
Educational guide to the history of sculpture by Jack Bookbinder covering everything from the statues of ancient Greece to modern American monuments.
Indian Sculpture and Temple Ornamentation
http://members.tripod.com/~IMAGE_INDIA/sculpture.html
Images and historical notes by Shishir Thadani relating to Indian sculpture and temple carvings, from Image India.
Liverpool's Peter Pan
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/hamlyn/peterpan
A collection of people's memories and photographs of the Peter Pan sculpture from Liverpool's Sefton Park.
Meteorite Taipei
http://www.geocities.com/meteoritetaipei/
This meteorite collection includes ancient Chinese artifacts sculpted from meteorite. Photographs and descriptions.
Sensuality in Memorial Art
http://northstargallery.com/pages/Sensualilty.htm
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.
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
A searchable text and image database. A British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Tello Obelisk
http://www.jqjacobs.net/andes/tello.html
Photographs, description and discussion by James Q. Jacobs of this prehistoric carved granite monolith from Chavín de Huantár in Peru, with bibliography.
Tribute to Four Sculptors from Zimbabwe
http://www.tamarin.com/shona/shondire1.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.
Wodan Still Speaks
http://www.angelfire.com/retro/wodanspeaks/
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.