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.