A History in Links of Portrait Sculpture
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Art History Sites
A Fantastic Timeline of Art History by the Metropolitan Museum
Philip Mould Historical Portrait Image Database
Online Encyclopedia of Japanese Buddhist Statuary
Timeline (from past to present)
200,000 years ago, Northern Europe. Paleolithic Man was chipping likenesses in stone.
~750 B.C- ~150 B.C. Classical Greece
Photoessay of Greek Sculpture
~185 A.D. An interesting portrait sculpture found in Nepal
~1300 A.D. West Africa. A Renaissance in form among the Yoruban people in Ife.
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Louis XIV,1665.
1741-1828. Jean-Antoine Houdon.
HoudonPortraits
Houdon Biography
Early-mid 1900s. Jacob Epstein
Biography of Sir Jacob Epstein
mid 1900s. Isamu Noguchi Portrait Busts.
a NYT article on his Portraits
Noguchi Wiki Biography
Noguchi Museum- portraiture
late 1900s. Philip Grausman
late 1900s. Frederick Hart.