Ka Statue of King Hor
A wooden royal figure showing the king as his Ka, with traces of original painted details.
The Wave
A great onyx wave about to crash over three nude bathers holding hands.
Fountain of Diana
Marble Diana with a bow, hounds, and a deer, once topping a grand fountain.
Man with the Broken Nose
An asymmetrical bust that marked Rodin’s break from academic ideals.
Corpus
A life-size bronze crucifixion long mistaken for the work of another artist.
Daedalus and Icarus
An early Canova sculpture balancing ideal beauty with realism and dramatic contrast.
Head of Eutropius
An elongated, intensely expressive portrait with fixed gaze, flowing hair, and a long beard.
Transparente
A dramatic Baroque altarpiece that uses light and hidden openings to illuminate the tabernacle.
Hope Dionysus
A Roman marble Dionysus figure draped in panther skin and a short chiton.
La Danse
A lively marble group of dancing figures that caused a public scandal.
Venus Italica
A marble replacement for the Venus de Medici, created by Antonio Canova.
Peine del Viento
Three steel sculptures embedded in rocks above the Cantabrian Sea.
Gorilla Carries a Woman
A controversial group sculpture that helped shape later images of King Kong.
Apoxyomenos
An athlete pauses mid-cleaning, captured in a graceful contrapposto pose.
Neptune and Triton
A marble Baroque sculpture inspired by a scene from Virgil’s Aeneid.
Horemheb and Amenia
A double sculpture of the future pharaoh and his wife, joined by intertwined hands.
Havmannen
A granite figure standing knee-deep in the fjord, gazing out to sea.
Coatlicue
A monumental Aztec figure with serpent skirt, severed head, and a necklace of hearts.
Francesco Barberini Bust
A marble bust based closely on a portrait by Caravaggio.
Alley of Classics
Bronze busts line a park walkway on polished red granite pedestals.
San Juan Patrón
An accompanying devotional image linked to the revered Cristo Negro of Esquipulas.
Apennine Colossus
A monumental stone giant with grottoes, water effects, and mythological references.
Man walking to the sky
A painted figure strides upward along a towering, tilted steel tube.
Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
An immediate, expressive portrait revealing a crack later concealed by a second version.
Grifo de Redován
A mythological half-man, half-eagle figure with striking proto-Hellenic features.
Kouros
An archaic marble youth statue with a frontal stance and elaborate hair.
Corbridge Lion
A Roman sandstone lion once reused as a fountainhead and later discovered in Corbridge.
Chimera of Arezzo
An Etruscan bronze beast shown wounded in its final struggle.
Djedefre sphinx head
A quartzite royal head with expressive features and evidence of a sphinx form.
El Caballito
A bronze equestrian monument once nearly destroyed after Mexican independence.
Warka Mask
An early female face with almond eyes, a geometric form, and intense expression.
The Rape of Proserpina
A dramatic marble group capturing the violent abduction and twisting motion.
The Goat Amalthea
An early marble group of putti by Bernini, now in Rome.
Abbot Luigi
A late Roman statue of a high magistrate, famed for satirical verses.
Venus Victrix
A life-size reclining neo-Classical portrait of Pauline Bonaparte as a goddess.
Brutus
A marble bust with a dramatic turn of the head and unfinished details.
Blessed Soul
A bust by Bernini, created around 1619 as a companion piece.
Alma Mater
A bronze figure in academic dress flanked by symbols of learning and labor.
Apollo and Daphne
A dramatic marble group capturing a nymph’s transformation into a laurel tree.
Sakuntala
A young couple embraced in a tender moment of reunion.
Holbeinpferd
A concrete foal sculpture in Freiburg known for many anonymous alterations.
Khafre Enthroned
An immobile royal figure in hard stone, balanced and eternally composed.
Sleeping Maenad
A reclining nude figure on a panther skin, with losses and modern plaster repairs.
Crucifix
A striking nude crucified Christ carved in white Carrara marble.
Bacchus
A sensual marble figure inspired by classical antiquity and hedonism.
Hercules
A rare gilded bronze figure with club, lion skin, and golden apples.
Giustiniani Hestia
A finely carved marble figure with austere features and flowing drapery.
Saint Rossore Reliquary
A realistic gilded bronze bust that breaks from medieval reliquary tradition.
Compianto sul Cristo morto
Seven life-sized terracotta figures express a deeply dramatic lamentation scene.
Santa Croce Crucifix
A strikingly realistic polychrome wooden crucifix that once drew criticism for its naturalism.
Statues, Busts and Sculptures
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