European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum - Hardcover

Containing over 100 masterpieces from a major collection, this volume traces the history of European sculpture, from the early-Christian period through to the beginning of the 20th century. Highlights include the medieval ivories, works by many of the Italian Renaissance masters, English 18th-century pieces, such as Roubillac's statue of Handel and sculptures by Rodin.

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the finest and most wide-ranging collection of post-classical sculpture in the world. This book contains over 100 of the greatest masterpieces of the National Collection of Sculpture at the Museum, each of which is described in detail and beautifully illustrated. Through the book's pages it is possible to follow the development of sculpture from the Early Christian period to the beginning of the twentieth century. Amongst the finest pieces are a group of highly important ivory carvings from the Middle Ages, reliefs and figures in marble and terracotta by the greatest Italian sculptors, outstanding English eighteenth-century sculptures on both a large and small scale, and major examples of works from Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain.