"This work was originally published in four volumes"-T.p. verso.

Part I. The great art of antiquity / by Philippe Bruneau, Mario Torelli, Xavier Barral i Altet--Part II. The great art of the Middle Ages : from the fifth century to the fifteenth century / by Georges Duby, Xavier Barral i Alter, Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut--Part III. The great tradition of sculpture : from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century / by Bernard Ceysson ... [et al.]--Part IV. The adventure of modern sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain ... [et al.].