Athena Protects the Young Hero
Athena shields a warrior with her shield while poised to throw her spear.
Standing Psyche and Love
A neoclassical marble group showing Psyche offering Cupid a butterfly.
Canada's Golgotha
A crucified Canadian soldier is surrounded by mocking German soldiers.
Eustache de Saint Pierre
A study of the oldest burgher, shown with lowered arms and a bowed body.
Court of Neptune Fountain
Granite basin with bronze figures of Neptune, Tritons, and naiads.
Virgin from Ger
A solemn seated Madonna and Child in polychromed wood.
Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi
A towering saint with raised arms stands above five devoted followers.
Lions at the Dvortsovaya Pier
Leaf-copper lions on cast-iron pedestals guarding a historic St. Petersburg embankment.
The Torch Bearers
A young rider takes a torch from an elderly man lying on the ground.
El Salobral Sphinxes
A mirrored pair of Iberian sphinxes made to guard a funerary tomb.
A-maze-ing Laughter
Fourteen towering bronze figures share the artist’s hysterical laughter.
Mercury and Psyche
A marble work by Reinhold Begas, created between 1867 and 1878.
Plaça de Catalunya Sculptures
A large open-air museum of 28 public sculptures in central Barcelona.
Kindertransport
A bronze memorial to children evacuated from Nazi-occupied Europe to Britain.
Survival of the Fattest
A bronze figure of global injustice, balancing a starving boy beneath a fat woman.
Victor Schœlcher Statue
A bronze group showing Schœlcher with a newly freed enslaved man.
Group of Bears
Bronze bears appearing in multiple casts and public installations.
Orpheus Fountain
A fountain topped by Orpheus and surrounded by eight moving figures.
Theodore Roosevelt Equestrian Statue
A bronze equestrian portrait flanked by two walking figures.
Le Miroir
A marble standing woman and a bronze servant arranged on a sculpted bronze base.
Sam'al lions
Ancient gateway lions, partly recarved and set at right angles to each other.
Sztafeta
Three nude runners capture the moment of a relay handoff.
Spirit of Haida Gwaii
A symbolic cedar dugout canoe filled with mythic figures and human passengers.
God our Father on the Rainbow
A monumental parabolic arch crowned by God, with an angel offering stars.
Horse Tamers
Two bronze equestrian statues of a horse trainer and his horse.
Statue of Saladin
An equestrian bronze monument showing victory, captives, and the crown of Jerusalem.
Hercules and Lychas
A dramatic marble group showing Hercules hurling the unsuspecting youth into the air.
Nenningen Pietà
A late Baroque group showing Mary grieving over the dead Christ.
End of the Trail
A weary Native American and horse, shown exhausted and turned against the wind.
La yunta
A bronze scene of a farmer working the land with two yoked oxen.
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
A bronze figure of Heracles wrestling the invincible lion of Greek myth.
Pan and Daphne
A marble group showing Pan teaching a shy shepherd to play the flute.
Gloria Victis
A winged allegorical figure carries a dying soldier toward glory.
Togatus Barberini
A patrician in toga holding busts of his deceased ancestors.
The Partisans
An outdoor aluminum monument honoring anti-communist partisans and fighters for freedom.
Samson Slaying a Philistine
A spiraling marble group full of drama, movement, and anatomical detail.
Princesses Monument
A celebrated double portrait of two Prussian sisters in life-size form.
Angelic Salutation
A suspended limewood Annunciation ensemble that survived the Reformation in Nuremberg.
Raherka and Meresankh
A vividly painted limestone pair statue showing an embracing ancient Egyptian couple.
Music
An allegorical group created for Warsaw’s MDM as part of a postwar decorative ensemble.
Pompeii Lakshmi
A fragmentary ivory woman with jewelry, attendants, and an elaborate hairstyle.
Varvakeion Athena
A Roman marble copy showing Athena with shield, aegis, and a small Nike.
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.
Daedalus and Icarus
An early Canova sculpture balancing ideal beauty with realism and dramatic contrast.
Transparente
A dramatic Baroque altarpiece that uses light and hidden openings to illuminate the tabernacle.
La Danse
A lively marble group of dancing figures that caused a public scandal.
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.
Neptune and Triton
A marble Baroque sculpture inspired by a scene from Virgil’s Aeneid.
Statues, Busts and Sculptures
Park sculptures and installations
Ancient World & Antiquity
Middle Ages & Renaissance
Marble & Other Stones
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