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City Creatures

http://www.geocities.com/city_creatures/

Gallery of photographs of the carvings found on buildings around the world.

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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/

The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map showing the counties covered by each volume.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Meteorite Taipei

http://www.geocities.com/meteoritetaipei/

This meteorite collection includes ancient Chinese artifacts sculpted from meteorite. Photographs and descriptions.

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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.

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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/

A searchable text and image database. A British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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