72
VIII. The Apollo of Syracuse, and the Self-made Man 84
IX. Apollo Chrysocomes of Clazomenae 85
X. Marble Masonry in the Duomo of Verona 100
XI. The First Elements of Sculpture. Incised outline
and opened space 101
XII. Branch of Phillyrea 109
XIII. Greek Flat relief, and sculpture by edged incision 111
XIV. Apollo and the Python. Heracles and the Nemean Lion 119
XV. Hera of Argos. Zeus of Syracuse 120
XVI. Demeter of Messene. Hera of Cnossus 121
XVII. Athena of Thurium. Siren Ligeia of Terina 121
XVIII. Artemis of Syracuse. Hera of Lacinian Cape 122
XIX. Zeus of Messene. Ajax of Opus 124
XX. Greek and Barbarian Sculpture 127
XXI. The Beginnings of Chivalry 129
PREFACE.
1. I must pray the readers of the following Lectures to remember that
the duty at present laid on me at Oxford is of an exceptionally complex
character. Directly, it is to awaken the interest of my pupils in a
study which they have hitherto found unattractive, and imagined to be
useless; but more imperatively, it is to define the principles by which
the study itself should be guided; and to vindicate their security
against the doubts with which frequent discussion has lately incumbered
a subject which all think themselves competent to discuss. The
possibility of such vindication is, of course, implied in the original
consent of the Universities to the establishment of Art Professorships.
Nothing can be made an element of education of which it is impossible to
determine whether it is ill done or well; and the clear assertion that
there is a canon law in formative Art is, at this time, a more important
function of each University than the instruction of its younger members
in any branch of practical skill. It matters comparatively little
whether few or many of our students learn to draw; but it matters much
that all who learn should be taught with accuracy. And the number who
may be justifiably advised to give any part of the time they spend at
college to the study of painting or sculpture ought to depend, and
finally _must_ depend, on their being ce
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