Part 1. The great art of antiquity : from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD / by Philippe Bruneau, Mario Torelli, Xavier Barral i Altet -- Part 2. The great art of the Middle Ages : from the fifth century to the fifteenth century / by Georges Duby, Xavier Barral i Altet, Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut. -- Part 3. The great tradition of sculpture : from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century / by Bernard Ceysson, Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, François Souchal -- Part 4. The adventure of modern sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Anne Pingeot, Reinhold Hohl, Jean-Luc Daval, Barbara Rose, Friedrich Meschede.