part 1. 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. 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. 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. 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.