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General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects, February, 1907
General Catalogue of Sculpture Paintings and Other Objects February 1907 Author:Art Institute of Chicago General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Printed for the Art Institute Subjects: Art Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mi... more »llion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SCULPTURE. THE ELBR1DGE G. HALL COLLECTION. CASTS IN PLASTER OR STAFF FROM REPRESENTATIVE ORIGINAL SCULPTURES, This collection was purchased for the Art Institute with funds provided by Mrs. Addie M. Hall Ellis, by whose direction it bears the name of Elbridge G. Hall, a citizen of Chicago from 1849 to 1877. In accordance with the wishes of the donor it includes only full-sized fac-similes of original works in sculpture. These reproductions occupy rooms 1-5, 8, 10 and 12 in an order approximately chronological. They are briefly described on pages 9-78 of this catalogue. See note on page 78. Rooms 1 and 2. Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Syria, Asia Minor and Early Greece. The art of Asia Minor, including the rock sculpture of the Hittites, was influenced by that of Assyria and Babylonia. The latter nations, in common with Persia, owed their art to the Chaldeans, at the head of the Persian Gulf. Farther back this great art movement cannot now be traced. j But few remains of Chaldean art proper have come down to us, and its development in Babylonia was restricted by the scarcity of suitable material for sculpture. But its growth in Persia and Assyria, under more favorable conditions, was wonderfully luxuriant. Assyria took the lead in its propagation, carrying it westward through Syria and Asia Minor. Egypt was also an independent worker in the same field, and the influence of Greece, still archaic, was felt there. But the drift of all the living art west of India in those days was towards Greece itself, where, from the heter...« less