Famous sculptures

Prehistoric

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  Löwenmensch, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, now in Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany, the oldest known anthropomorphic animal-human statuette, Aurignacian era, c. 35–40,000 BP
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  Venus of Laussel, c. 27,000 BP, an Upper Palaeolithic carving, Bordeaux museum, France
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  Venus of Willendorf. Around 25,000-30,000 years ago (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
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  Venus of Brassempouy, dated circa 25,000 BC

9th millennium BC

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  Urfa Man, c. 9,000 BCE (Şanlıurfa Museum)
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  Ain Sakhri lovers]] (British museum)

3nd millennium BC

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  Guennol Lioness, c. 3000–2800 BC (Private collection)

28th century BC

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  Tell Asmar male worshiper votive sculpture. 2750−2600 BCE (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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  Head from the figure of a woman, Spedos type, Early Cycladic II, Keros culture. (Head of woman-Ma 2709). 2700 BC (Louvre)

27th century BC

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  Harpist of Keros. Cycladic, ca.2600 BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)
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  Rahotep and Nofret statues, 2650-2610 BC (Egyptian Museum in Cairo)

26th century BC

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  Great Sphinx of Giza. C. 2558–2532 BC
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  Statue of Kaaper, Old Kingdom, (around 2500 BCE) (Egyptian Museum)
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  Goulandris Master - Cycladic Female Figurine, 2500–2400 BC (Walters)

25th century BC

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  Menkaura (Mycerinus) and queen, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, 2490–2472 BCE
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  The Seated Scribe, the period of the Old Kingdom, from either the 5th Dynasty, c. 2450–2325 BCE or the 4th Dynasty, 2620–2500 BCE (Louvre)

24th century BC

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  Bronze head of a king of the Old Akkadian dynasty, most likely Naram-Sin or Sargon of Akkad. C. 2300 (National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad)
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  Dancing Girl, Mohenjo-daro, c. 2300–1750 BC (National Museum, New Delhi, Delhi)

22th century BC

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  Statues of Gudea, c. 2144–2124 BC

2nd millennium BC

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  Priest-King, c. 2000–1900 BCE (National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi)

19th century BC

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  The Trundholm sun chariot, perhaps 1800–1500 BCE (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen)
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  Burney Relief, 19th-18th century BC (British Museum)

18th century BC

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  Code of Hammurabi, 1755—1752 BC, basalt (Louvre)

17th century BC

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  Snake Goddess, 1650-1550 BC (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion)

16th century BC

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  Rhyton in the form of a bulls head from Knossos, ca. 1550-1500 BC (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion)

14th century BC

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  Colossal Statue of Amenhotep IV from Karnak, 1356-1350 BCE (Cairo museum)
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  Nefertiti Bust, C. 1351–1334 BC (Neues Museum)
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  Mask of Tutankhamun, c. 1323 BC (Egyptian Museum)

13th century BC

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  The Great Temple of Abu Simbel (ca. 1280 BCE)
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  Lion Gate (Mycenae), 1250 BC

1st millennium BC

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  Olmec colossal heads. Before 900 BC.
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  A Jōmon dogū figure, late Jomon period (1,000- 400 BC), Tokyo National Museum

9th century BC

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  Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, circa 800–721 BCE (Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago)
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  "Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff.

7th century BC

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  Lady of Auxerre. c. 650 - 625 BC (Louvre)

6th century BC

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  Polymedes of Argos. Kleobis and Biton. C. 580 BC (Delphi Archaeological Museum)
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  Chryselephantine torso of Apollo. C. 550 BC (Archaeological Museum of Delphi)
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  Peplos Kore, c. 530 BCE(Athens, Acropolis Museum)
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  Sarcophagus of the Spouses. 530-510 BC (National Etruscan Museum, Rome)
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  Bull capital Apadana AOD1, Palace of Darius in Susa, c. 510 (Louvre)
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  Bicha of Balazote, 6th century (National Archaeological Museum of Spain)
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  Apollo of Veii, c. 510 - 500 BC (National Etruscan Museum, Rome)

5th century BC

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  Chimera of Arezzo. C. 400 BCE (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence)
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  Kritios and Nesiotes. Harmodius and Aristogeiton (original was 476 BC, current - Roman copy, Naples museum)
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  Charioteer of Delphi, bronze, c. 478 BC
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  Ludovisi Throne, 490-450 BC (Museo Nazionale Romano)
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  Artemision God from the Sea. 460—450 BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)
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  Riace bronzes. 460–450 BC (Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia, Reggio Calabria)
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  Myron. Discobolus (original c. 450 BC, current - many copies)
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  Myron. Athena and Marsyas (original c. 450 BC, current - many copies)
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  Elgin Marbles, c. 447–433 BCE (British museum)
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  Polykleitos. Doryphoros, (original c. 440 BC, current - many copies)
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  Amazon of Sciarra (original c. 430 BC, current - many copies)
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  Kresilas. Herm of Pericles (original ca. 430 BC., some copies)
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  Phidias. Statue of Zeus at Olympia. 430 BC. Original lost
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  Polykleitos. Diadumenos, (original c. 420 BC, current - many copies)
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  Caryatides - The Porch of the Maidens. Erechtheion, 420 — 406 BC
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  Relief "Nike Fixing Her Sandal", from Temple of Athena Nike, 410-400 BC (Acropolis Museum)

4th century BC

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  Praxiteles. Apollo Sauroctonos, (original ca. 350s BC - many copies)
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  Praxiteles. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, 350-330 BC (Olimpia museum)
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  Praxiteles. Resting Satyr (original 4th century BC, many copies)
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  Praxiteles. Aphrodite of Knidos. 350—330, original lost, many copies.
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  Timotheus. Leda and the swan.
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  Horses of Saint Mark. Between 4th century BC (by Lysippos) and 2-3nd centuries AC.
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  Lysippos. Eros bending his bow. Lost original, many copies
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  Lady of Elche. Possibly 4th century (National Archaeological Museum of Spain)

3nd century BC

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  Varvakeion Athena, 200–250 AD (National Archaeological Museum of Athens). Copy of Phidias' Athena Parthenos (5th century)
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  Terracotta Army, 210–209 BC
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  Ashoka Pillar, Vaishali, Bihar, c. 250 BCE

2nd century BC

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  Barberini Faun. Possibly c. 200 BC (Glyptothek, Munich)
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  Winged Victory of Samothrace. C. 200–190 BC (Louvre)
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  Pasquino Group. Lost Hellenistic bronze original, dating to ca. 200–150 BCE. Many Roman copies.
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  Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar - Athena contra Alcyoneus, first half of the 2nd century BC (Pergamon Museum in Berlin).
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  Venus de Milo, 130-100 BC / 150-125 BC (Louvre)
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  Polycles. Sleeping Hermaphroditus, c. 155 BC. Original is lost
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  Hellenistic Prince, 2nd century (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)
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  Artemis of Ephesus. Many copies of lost original
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  Three Graces. Original is lost, many copies and reliefs

1st century BC

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  Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus from Rhodes. Laocoön and His Sons. Possibly arble copy 1st century BC from bronze original c. 200 BC
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  Apollonios. Belvedere Torso. Copy from the 1st century BC or AD of an older statue, probably to be dated to the early 2nd century BC (Vatican Museums)
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  San Ildefonso Group (1st century, Prado)
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  Uffizi Wrestlers. 1st century BC Roman copy of 3rd century BC Hellenistic lost original, possibly by Lysippos.
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  Venus Callipyge. Late 1st century BC from 300 BC lost Greek original. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples)
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  Venus de' Medici. 1st century BC (Uffizi)
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  Boxer of the Quirinal. Various dates within the period of about 330 to 50 BCE (Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)

1st millennium AC

1st century AC

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  Augustus of Prima Porta
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  Il Spinario. Rome bronze copy 1st century BC from Greek origiinal 3rd century BC. (Musei Capitolini)
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  Juno Ludovisi. (Palazzo Altemps)
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  Caligula. Before 41 AC (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
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  Portrait of Socrates. Roman artwork (1st century), perhaps a copy of a lost bronze statue made by Lysippos (4th century BC).
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  Resting Hermes from the Villa of the Papyri (Herculaneum). Roman copy made before 79 AD, possibly copy from Lysippos (3-4th century BC). Bronze
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  Cupid and Psyche. 1st or 2nd century Roman copy of a late Hellenistic original (Capitoline Museums)
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  Vatican Nile, 1st century AD copy of 3rd century BC Hellenistic lost original (Vatican Museums)
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  Standing Buddha from Gandhara, 1-2nd century (Tokyo National Museum)
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  Bronze Head of Hypnos from Civitella d'Arna, 1st-2nd Century AD (British museum)

2nd century AC

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  Apollo Belvedere, c. 120–140 AD (Louvre). Possibly copy of Leochares (4th century BC).
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  Diana of Versailles. Partially restored Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 BC (Louvre)
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  Sleeping Ariadne. Roman Hadrianic copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Pergamene school of the 2nd century BC. (Vatican museums)
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  Epigonus. Ludovisi Gaul (National Roman Museum - Palazzo Altemps, Rome). Roman copy of the early second century AD, of a Hellenistic original, ca 230-20 BC.
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  Bust of Homer. Antonine period (138 — 161) copy of Hellenistic original (2nd century BC). Naples
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  Ares Ludovisi. 2nd century AC Roman copy from 4th or 2th century BC Greek lost original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus (National Museum of Rome, Rome)
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  Farnese Atlas, around AD 150, possibly copy of 2nd century BC. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)
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  Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. C. 175
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  Commodus as Hercules. 191-192 (Musei Capitolini)
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  Medusa Rondanini. May be a Roman copy of a classical work of the 5th century BC or modeled after a classicising Hellenistic work of the late 4th century BC (Glyptothek Munich)
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  Crouching Venus. Roman copy after Hellinistic original

3rd century AC

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  Farnese Bull, Severian period (222-235 AC) copy of a Hellenistic sculpture (end of the 2nd century BC). Naples museum
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  Farnese Hercules. By Glykon (c. 216 AD), reproduced from the original by Lysippos (4th century BC for original). (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)
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  The Good Shepherd (Vatican Museums)
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  Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam. 260s

4th century AC

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  Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs. Around 300 (St Mark's Basilica in Venice)
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  Colossus of Constantine. 315—330 (Capitoline Museums)

5th century AC

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  The Barberini Diptych, 5-6th century (Louvre)

6th century AC

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  Throne of Maximian, c.500-550 (Archiepiscopal Museum, Ravenna, Italy)
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  Buddhas of Bamiyan

8th century AC

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  Nara Daibutsu, c. 752, Nara, Japan

2nd millennium AC

10th century

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  Gero Cross, c. 965–970 (Cologne Cathedral)
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  A 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

11th century

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  Capitoline Wolf. 1021-1153 AC statue, possibly copy of 5th century BC Etruscan original. Statues of children added in 15th century
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  Pisa Griffin

12th century

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  Chartres. C. 1145
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  Brunswick Lion, 1166 (Dankwarderode Castle, Brunswick)
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  Last Judgment by Gislebertus in the west tympanum at the Autun Cathedral
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  Lewis chessmen, 12th century

13th century

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  The Church and The Synagogue, statues on the facade of Strasbourg Cathedral, c. 1230 (Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame)
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  Bamberg Horseman, 1237 (cathedral of Bamberg)
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  Master of Saint Joseph. Smiling Angel (Le Sourire de Reims). Circa 1245—1255
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  Naumburger Stifterfiguren, Ekkehard II. und Uta. Circa 1250
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  Adam, attributed to Pierre de Montreuil, originally on the facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. C. 1260 (Musée de Cluny)
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  Moai. Easter Island, between the years 1250 and 1500

14th century

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  Virgin of Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris). Early 14th century
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  Mary Magdalen and angels, end 14th century (?), from the Hanseatic city of Toruń in Poland
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  Claus Sluter. Puits de Moïse. C. 1395—1406

15th century

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  Donatello. David. C. 1440 (Museo Nazionale del Bargello)
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  Donatello. Penitent Magdalene. 1453–1455 (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence)
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  Donatello. Equestrian statue of Gattamelata. 1447-1453
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  Lorenzo Ghiberti. The Gates of Paradise. 1452 (Santa Maria del Fiore)
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  Verrocchio. David. 1473-1475 (Museo nazionale del Bargello, Firenze)
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  Probably after a model by Andrea del Verrocchio and Orsino Benintendi. Lorenzo de' Medici terracotta portrait, 1478-1521 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
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  Antoine Le Moiturier. Tomb of Philippe Pot. C. 1480 (Louvre)
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  Verrocchio. Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni. 1480–1488
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  Michelangelo. Pietà. 1497–1500 (St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City)
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  Michelangelo. Bacchus. C. 1497—1501. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence)

16th century

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  Michelangelo. David. 1501—1504 (Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence; formerly Loggia dei Lanzi)
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  Aztec sun stone. Between 1502 and 1520. National Anthropology Museum (Mexico City)
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  Michelangelo. Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici. 1520-1534
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  Benvenuto Cellini. Perseus with the Head of Medusa. 1545—1554 (Loggia dei Lanzi)
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  Michelangelo. Moses. 1513-1516 (San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome)
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  Benvenuto Cellini. Nymph of Fontainebleau. 1542-43. (Louvre)
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  Ligier Richier, Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon, c. 1545–47
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  Jean Goujon. Reliefs from Fontaine des Innocents, 1547-1549 (Louvre).
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  Michelangelo. Bandini Pieta. 1550-1555
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  Gregor Erhart: Saint Mary Magdalene. Polychrome wood, first half of the 16th century
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  Giambologna. Abduction of a Sabine Woman, 1579–1583 (Loggia dei Lanzi)
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  Giambologna. Mercurius. C. 1580
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  Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women, 1579–1583 (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence)
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  Giambologna. Apennine Colossus. 1580s
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  Sculpture of a 'Queen Mother' from Benin, 16th century. (Ethnological Museum Berlin)
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  Queen Mother Pendant Mask- Iyoba, Benin. 16th century (Metropolitan)

17th century

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  Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder. Manneken Pis. 1613
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  Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621–1622 (Galleria Borghese)
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  Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622–1625 (Galleria Borghese)
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  Bernini. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. 1647–1652 (Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome)
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  Girardon. Apollo being served by the nymphs, Grotto of the grove of the baths of Apollo, Palace of Versailles (1666-1675)

18th century

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  Giuseppe Mazzuoli. The Death of Adonis. 1700—1710 (Hermitage)
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  Antonio Corradini - Dama Velata (Puritas). 1722 (Ca' Rezzonico, Venice)
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  Trevi Fountain, 1732–1762
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  Johann August Nahl. Grabmal der Maria Magdalena Langhans. 1750s
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  Giuseppe Sanmartino. Veiled Christ. 1753
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  Étienne-Maurice Falconet. Pygmalion et Galatee (1763)
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  Étienne Maurice Falconet. Bronze Horseman. 1768—1770
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  Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The Hanged Man (no. 25 in a character head series). after 1770
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  Houdon. Voltaire. 1770s
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  Canova. Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, 1787

19th century

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  Canova. Hebe. 1800–05
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  Canova, Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1804–6
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  Canova. Venus Victrix. 1805–1808
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  Canova. Three Graces. 1813-1816.
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  Bertel Thorvaldsen. Ganymede Waters Zeus as an Eagle, Thorvaldsen Museum. 1917
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  Bertel Thorvaldsen. Christus (1824), Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen
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  Hiram Powers. The Greek Slave. 1844
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  Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Gargoyle of the Notre-Dame de Paris. 1844
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  Guillaume Geefs. Le génie du mal. 1848
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  Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, , 1857–1860, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  George Gilbert Scott and others. en:Albert Memorial. 1870s
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  Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Statue of Liberty. 1876—1886
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  Anonymous. Mephistopheles and Margaretta. c. 1876
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  Rodin. The Thinker. 1880—1882
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  Degas. Little Dancer of Fourteen Years. C. 1880
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  Rodin. The Kiss. 1882.
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  Mark Antokolsky. Mephistopheles, 1884
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  Rodin, The Three Shades, before 1886
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  Rodin. The Burghers of Calais. 1889, Calais, France
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  Camille Claudel, The Waltz, 1889-1905
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  Jules Dalou. fr:Le Triomphe de la République. 1899

20th century

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  Aristide Maillol. La Méditerranée. 1900-1902
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  Medardo Rosso. Ecce puer, 1905
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  Constantin Brâncuși, 1907–08, The Kiss
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  Rodin. The Cathedral (The Arc of the Covenant). 1908
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  Antoine Bourdelle. Hercules the Archer. 1909
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  Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
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  Edvard Eriksen. The Little Mermaid. 1913
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  Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
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  Tatlin. Monument to the Third International (1919–20)
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  Daniel Chester French, Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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  El Lissitzky. Proun Room, 1923
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  Kurt Schwitters. de:Merzbau, 1923-36
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  Paul Manship. en:The Flight of Europa, 1925
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  Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore, 1927–1941
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  Christ the Redeemer. 1931
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  Paul Manship. Prometheus, 1934
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  Lee Lawrie. Atlas. 1937
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  Vera Mukhina. Worker and Kolkhoz Woman. 1937
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  Henry Moore. en:Reclining Figure 1938
• Constantin Brancusi. Endless Column, 1938
  Constantin Brancusi. Endless Column, 1938
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  Arno Breker. Fackelträger. 1938
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  Julio Gonzales, Mnsieur Cactus (L'uomo Cactus I), 1939
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  Barbara Hepworth. Pelagos, 1946
• Alexander Calder. Sumac II, 1952
  Alexander Calder. Sumac II, 1952
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  Felix de Weldon. Marine Corps War Memorial. 1954
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  Antonio Navarro Santafé. Statue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree. 1967
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  Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd. Non-Violence. 1984
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  Robert Rauschenberg. Riding Bikes, Objektkunst, 1998, Berlin.

IMAGES COPYRIGHTED BELOW

• Pablo Picasso. Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909[1]
• Henri Matisse. en:The Back Series, 1909-30
• Pablo Picasso, Guitar, 1912
• Pablo Picasso. Glass of Absinthe, 1914
• Man Ray. Enigma of Isidore Ducasse, 1920
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Light Space Modulator, 1922-30
• Constantin Brâncuși. Bird in Space. 1923
• Constantin Brancusi. The Beginning of the World, 1924
• Alberto Giacometti. Suspended Ball, 1930-01
• Meret Oppenheim. Object, 1936
• David Smith. Hudson River Landscape, 1951
• Reg Butler. Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner, 1951-2
• Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, 1955-6
• Yevgeny Vuchetich, Nikolai Nikitin. The Motherland Calls. 1967
• Mark di Suvero. Che Faro Senza Eurydice, 1959
• Jean Tinguely. Homage to New York, 1960
• Jasper Johns. Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960
• Claes Oldenburg. The Store, 1961
• Anthony Caro. Early One Morning, 1962
• Alberto Giacometti. L'Homme qui marche I. 1962
• Joseph Beuys. Fat Chair, 1964
• Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs, 1965
• Carl Andre. Equivalent VIII, 1966
• Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack), 1967
• Eva Hesse. Contingent, 1968
• Richard Serra. Verb List, 1968-9
• Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty, 1970
• Robert Indiana. Love. 1970
• Arturo Di Modica. Charging Bull. 1989
• Damien Hirst. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. 1991
• Jeff Koons. Balloon Dog. 1994-2000
• Louise Bourgeois.Spider. 1996 / Maman. 1999
• Antony Gormley, The Angel of the North, 1998

3rd millennium AC

21st century

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  Seward Johnson. Unconditional Surrender 2005-current

• Anish Kapoor. Cloud Gate. 2006
• Damien Hirst. For the Love of God. 2007
• Maurizio Cattelan. America. 2016
• Kristen Visbal, Fearless Girl. 2017