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City Creatures - Gallery of photographs of the carvings found on buildings around the world.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map showing the counties covered by each volume.

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland - A searchable text and image database. A British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Dupagne, Arthur (1895-1961) - Belgian Africanist Sculptor.

End of Europe's Middle Ages: Sculpture - Part of a University of Calgary tutorial with photographs and narrative from Gothic sculpture as an architectural component to free-standing Italian Renaissance sculpture.

Glasgow - City of Sculpture - Over 200 biographies of sculptors and architects, with hundreds of photographs covering the history of sculpture in Glasgow.

History of Sculpture - Educational guide to the history of sculpture by Jack Bookbinder covering everything from the statues of ancient Greece to modern American monuments.

Indian Sculpture and Temple Ornamentation - Images and historical notes by Shishir Thadani relating to Indian sculpture and temple carvings, from Image India.

Liverpool's Peter Pan - A collection of people's memories and photographs of the Peter Pan sculpture from Liverpool's Sefton Park.

Meteorite Taipei - This meteorite collection includes ancient Chinese artifacts sculpted from meteorite. Photographs and descriptions.

Sensuality in Memorial Art - Illustrated and referenced essay on the role of sensuality and the classic nude figure in memorial and cemetery sculpture around the world. From Northstar Gallery.

The Tello Obelisk - Photographs, description and discussion by James Q. Jacobs of this prehistoric carved granite monolith from Chavín de Huantár in Peru, with bibliography.

Tribute to Four Sculptors from Zimbabwe - John and Bernard Takawira, Brighton Sango and Henry Munyaradzi created a vital African movement in modern sculpture with their work in serpentine. On-line exhibition.

Wodan Still Speaks - Photographs by Guido Deseijn and Gerda Verheeke of Romanesque and Gothic sculptures on medieval religious buildings in Europe, suspected to represent the old pagan god Wodan or Odin.