Lanzón
A granite monolith carved with a supernatural figure in the Chavín tradition.
Emerald Buddha
A revered jade Buddha statue with seasonal robes and royal ceremonial dress changes.
Christian V Equestrian Statue
A gilded royal rider statue that became Copenhagen’s oldest surviving equestrian monument.
Merlion
A lion-headed fish symbolizing Singapore’s strength and maritime heritage.
Chemamull
A tall wooden figure used by the Mapuche in funerary rites.
The Cleveland Apollo
A life-size bronze Greek statue attributed to Praxiteles and still under scholarly review.
Pisa Griffin
A monumental bronze hybrid creature with intricate Arabic inscriptions and animal ornament.
Cristo de La Laguna
A revered Gothic crucifix showing Christ with naturalistic proportions and expressive suffering.
The Falconer
A man in Elizabethan dress stands on a granite pedestal, releasing a hunting falcon.
The Exiled
A Carrara marble work inspired by longing, later awarded in Madrid.
The Meeting Place
A bronze couple locked in an amorous embrace at St Pancras station.
The Great God Pan
A monumental bronze faun figure once intended as a fountain centerpiece.
The Porter
A fountain statue of a water carrier, long used for public satire.
California
A marble allegory of wealth and danger inspired by the Gold Rush.
The Eternal Springtime
A passionate lovers’ embrace marked by the man’s dominant pose.
Pericles with the Corinthian Helmet
An idealized statesman shown with a helmet and restrained, serious expression.
Motya Charioteer
An ancient sculpture dated to 480 BC and preserved on the island of Motya.
Sphinx of Memphis
A monumental alabaster sphinx with unusual striations and uncertain royal dedication.
Homunculus Loxodontus
A gray, seated figure with an elephant-seal head and human-like arms.
The Implorer
A kneeling nude figure marked by anguish, humiliation, and abandonment.
Saint Peter
A marble figure from Orsanmichele, now preserved in the museum there.
Athena Lemnia
An admired Classical Greek image of Athena, praised in ancient literary sources.
Il Gobbo di Rialto
A crouching nude hunchback once used for proclamations and punishments.
Angel of the North
A towering COR-TEN steel figure with a vast wingspan and iconic rusty finish.
Statue of Belief
A colossal seated Shiva statue with a meditative expression and a towering sacred form.
Hermes Belvedere
A standing nude with a travel cloak and a melancholic, downward gaze.
Kroisos Kouros
A majestic Archaic youth with a classic stride and faint smile.
Saint Petronius
A marble statue designed to be seen from below, later completed by Michelangelo.
Het Zinneke
A life-size stray dog sculpture with a raised leg and playful Brussels humor.
Gero Cross
An early carved crucifix of Christ with a bowed head and sinuous body.
Diana of Versailles
A dynamic marble huntress shown reaching for an arrow beside a doe.
Kouros of Apollonas
An unfinished 10.7-meter marble figure left in an ancient quarry.
Mano del Desierto
A towering concrete hand rising from the desert beside Chile’s Pan-American Highway.
David
A tense, life-size marble figure poised to launch the fatal stone.
Young Archer
A marble statue with disputed attribution and a possible link to a lost Cupid.
Equestrian Statue of Simón Bolívar
A bronze equestrian figure of Bolívar in military dress, holding his hat.
Inkpot Madonna
A graceful late Gothic Madonna with the Christ Child learning to write.
Cobblestone
A bronze allegory of revolution showing an insurgent worker poised to strike.
Atlas
A bronze Art Deco titan holding the heavens above his shoulders.
Appeal to the Great Spirit
A Native American rider reaches skyward in a powerful spiritual gesture.
Lady of Cerro de los Santos
A richly dressed standing figure offering a vessel in both hands.
Marforio
A reclining bearded river god with a bare torso and draped lower body.
Madonna di Trapani
A medieval statue of Mary linked to legends of rescue, miracles, and veneration.
Saint John the Baptist
A larger-than-life bronze figure inspired by an Italian peasant named Pignatelli.
Friesentor Madonna
A refined devotional Virgin and Child sculpture from late 14th-century Cologne.
Young Mother in the Grotto
A tender maternal scene set against rough rock and deep shadow.
Desolation
A melancholic modernist nude praised for its symbolic purity.
Oviri
A haunting ceramic figure showing wild hair, fierce eyes, and animal struggle.
Beautiful Virgin Mary from Krużlowa
A late Gothic limewood Madonna showing Mary with the Child and an apple.
Danaid
A nude, remorseful woman bent over rock, caught in endless punishment.
Statues, Busts and Sculptures
Park sculptures and installations
Ancient World & Antiquity
Middle Ages & Renaissance
Marble & Other Stones
Bronze & Other Metals