Sculpture

Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Italian: Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio) is a 1913 Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni. It is seen as an expression of movement and fluidity. The sculpture is depicted on the obv

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, his right elbow placed upon his left thigh, with the back of his right

Moses (Italian: Mosè [moˈzɛ]; c. 1513-1515) is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo, housed in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depic

Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in the period 1545-1554. The sculpture stands on a square base which has bronze relief panels depicting the story of Perseus and Andromeda, similar to

Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed between 1622 and 1625. It is regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age. The statue is housed in the

Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor that is the centerpiece of Grainger Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (also known as Saint Teresa in Ecstasy; Italian: L'Estasi di Santa Teresa or Santa Teresa in estasi) is a sculptural altarpiece group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel of

The Burghers of Calais (French: Les Bourgeois de Calais) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in 12 original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the Englis

Bird in Space (L'Oiseau dans l'espace) is a series of sculptures by Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. The original work was created in 1923 and made of marble. This sculpture is also known for containing seven marble figures

The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is seen by an estimated 33 million people every year due to its proximity to the A1 and A167

Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi; 22 March 1929 - 14 August 2026) was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.

François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst(ə) ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840 - 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work.

Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: , US: ; Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 - 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner.

Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture.

Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 - November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu MBE (14 July 1917 - 5 February 1994), better known as Ben Enwonwu, was a Nigerian painter and sculptor. Arguably the most influential African artist of the 20th century, his pioneering career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of modern African art.

El Anatsui (; born 4 February 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention for his "bottle-top installations". These installations consist of thousands of a

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 - 15 September 2023) was a Colombian painter and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece.

Camille Rosalie Claudel (French pronunciation: [kamij klodɛl] ; 8 December 1864 - 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity.

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 - 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.

Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 - April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterised by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures - works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought after.

His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Praxiteles (; Greek: Πραξιτέλης) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. While no ind

Magdalena Abakanowicz (Polish pronunciation: [maɡdaˈlɛna abakaˈnɔvit͡ʂ] aba-ka-NO-vich; 20 June 1930 - 20 April 2017) was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist. Known for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium and for outdoor installations, Abakanowicz has been considered among the most influential Polish artists of the postwar era.

Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 - 18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus Metall-Werkstatt (Metal Workshop) in Dessau in 1928.

Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 - September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He served as a design consultant to and then Chairman of the Department of Design at the Container Corporation of America.

Dale Chihuly ( chih-HOO-lee; born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist. He is well known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".

Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 - March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator whose body of work spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Anoth

Niki de Saint Phalle (French: [niki d(ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.

Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 - July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects.

Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Pereiaslav in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, she emigrated with her family to the United States in 1905.

Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 - 25 May 1899) was a French painter, sculptor and animalier. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Alberto Giacometti (, US also , Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 - 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.

Antonio Canova (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo kaˈnɔːva]; 1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.

Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]; 20 March 1741 - 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.

ISBN 978-3-777-44097-2 Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 - October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 - March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore.

Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 - March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known.

Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora (April 15, 1915 - April 2, 2012) was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (French: [mɑjɔl]; December 8, 1861 - September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker. He began his career as a painter and developed an early interest in the decorative arts.

The Waltz (French: La valse) or The Waltzers (French: Les valseurs) is a sculpture by the French artist Camille Claudel. It depicts two figures, a man and a woman, locked in an amorous embrace as they dance a waltz. The work was i

Single Form (BH 325) is a monumental bronze sculpture by the British artist Barbara Hepworth. It is her largest work, and one of her most prominent public commissions, displayed since 1964 in a circular water feature that forms a

The Kiss (French: Le Baiser) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The embracing nude couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bro

The Knife Angel (also referred to as the National Monument Against Violence & Aggression) is a contemporary sculpture formed of 100,000 knives created by artist Alfie Bradley and the British Ironworks Centre, based in Oswestry, En

The Virgin of Almudena (Virgen de la Almudena) is a medieval statue of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary is regarded as a patroness of Madrid, Spain, under this title. The Cathedral of Madrid is dedicated to

The Anubanini petroglyph (Persian: سنگ‌نگاره آنوبانی‌نی), also called Sar-e Pol-e Zohab II or Sarpol-i Zohab relief, is a rock relief from the Akkad period (circa 2300 BC) or the Isin-Larsa period (early second millennium BC) loca

Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: , US: , Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]; né di Bartolo; 1378 - 1 December 1455) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

Andrea del Verrocchio ( və-ROH-kee-oh, US also -⁠RAW-, Italian: [anˈdrɛːa del verˈrɔkkjo]; born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni; c. 1435-1488) was an Italian sculptor, painter and goldsmith who was a master of a worksho

Naum Gabo (born Naum Neemia Pevsner; Russian: Наум Борисович Певзнер; Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר; 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890 - 23 August 1977) was a Russian and American constructivist sculptor and theorist.

Sir Jacob Epstein (, 10 November 1880 - 21 August 1959) was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910.

Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 - January 6, 1996) was an American artist and sculptor born in Minnesota. He spent most of his career in South Florida.

Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 1924 - 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career.

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, Italian: [paoˈlɔttsi]; 7 March 1924 - 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works.

Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 - April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor. She was born in Paris to Venezuelan parents and lived and worked in New York City.

Warburg Institute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P_FGZVeNcg Benvenuto Cellini (, Italian: [beɱveˈnuːto tʃelˈliːni]; 3 November 1500 - 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the Cellini Salt Cellar, the sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, and his autobiography, which has been described as "one of the most important documents of the 16th century".

Do Ho Suh (Korean: 서도호; Hanja: 徐道濩; born 1962) is a South Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation, and drawing. Suh is well known for re-creating architectural structures and objects using fabric in what the a

Max Ernst (; German: [ɛʁnst] 2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe.

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.

A Tour of the location of Giambologna's major works in Florence Giambologna (1529 - 13 August 1608), also known as Jean de Boulogne (French), Jehan Boulongne (Flemish) and Giovanni da Bologna (Italian), was the last significant Italian Renaissance sculptor, with a large workshop producing large and small works in bronze and marble in a late Mannerist style.

Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1887 - February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, active in France and the United States.

Medardo Rosso (Italian: [meˈdardo ˈrosso]; 21 June 1858 - 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor.

Polykleitos (; Ancient Greek: Πολύκλειτος) was an ancient Greek sculptor, active in the 5th century BCE. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered as one of the most important sculptors of c

Luca della Robbia (, also US: , Italian: [ˈluːka della ˈrobbja, - ˈrɔb-]; 1399/1400-1482) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colorful, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique that

Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art.

Web Gallery of Art Antonio Gherardi (Il Reatino) (20 September 1638 - 10 May 1702) was an Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (stuccoist) of the Baroque style, active mainly in and near Rome and his native city of Rieti.

Luis Desangles Lubiles (8 February 1861 - 13 April 1940) was a Dominican painter, sculptor, and educator born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Instructor to many of the great native artists of the era, Desangles is remembered as one of the forerunners of Dominican national art and initiators of the country's costumbrismo style.

The metal pieces were made using lost-wax casting and are considered among the best African sculptures made using this technique.

Hans Leinberger, sometimes given as Lemberger (c.1475/1480, after 1531) was a Late Gothic sculptor from Altbayern, who worked in wood, metal and stone.

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743-4 June 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish: [ˈpɛɐ̯tl̩ ˈtsʰɒːˌvælˀsn̩]; 19 November 1770-24 March 1844) was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797-1838) in Italy.

1481) was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor.

Andrea della Robbia (20 October 1435-4 August 1525) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics.

produced large-scale paintings and sculptures

Rauschenberg was primarily a painter and a sculptor

10 September 1645-10 June 1708) was a late Dutch Baroque painter, sculptor, engraver and caricaturist.

Claude Michel (20 December 1738-29 March 1814), known as Clodion, was a French sculptor in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in marble, bronze, & terracotta.

was a French painter and sculptor

was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time

was an American fiber sculptor

was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter

was a modernist sculptor

was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades

was an Indian sculptor

is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor

was an Indian master printmaker, sculptor, and teacher

was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera

was a Hungarian-French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker

was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school

was an Egyptian sculptor

is an Indian sculptor

is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic

is an American and French visual artist, sculptor, novelist, and poet

is a Colombian visual artist and sculptor

was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter

was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor

was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada

was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith

was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the noucentisme generation from Catalonia

is an Israeli sculptor

was an Azerbaijani sculptor and painter

was an Iranian painter, and bas-relief sculptor

was a Swiss-Italian sculptor

was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance

was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect

was a Costa Rican-born Mexican artist, known both for his painting and his sculpture

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Richard Serra (November 2, 1938, March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with postminimalism.

Jeffrey Lynn Koons ( ; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.

Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts.

Sui Jianguo (Chinese: 隋建國), professor and ex-chairman of the Department of Sculpture in Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, is a contemporary Chinese artist.

Also by 1964, he began work on wall-mounted sculptures, and first developed the curved progression format of these works in 1964 as a development from his work on an untitled floor piece that set a hollow pipe into a solid wooden block.

He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

Ai Weiwei has created political sculptures, photographs, and public works.

Marino Marini (27 February 1901-6 August 1980) was an Italian sculptor and educator.

Julio González i Pellicer (21 September 1876-27 March 1942), born in Barcelona, was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture.

Painting, sculpture, and printmaking

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ( bar-T(H)OL-dee, French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi]; 2 August 1834-4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter.

Painting, sculpture, mural and ceramics

primarily known for her abstract looped-wire sculptures

He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures

known for his weaving, abstract mixed-media sculpture, watercolor paintings, cast paper art, and fiber art

His sculptures utilize traditional Cambodian materials

Her largely abstract sculptural forms

She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations

who predominantly created ceramic sculpture

was an Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance and Mannerism

was a late Gothic sculptor, active in South Tyrol

was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor

she studied to be an emergency medical technician and sculpted body parts

Shonibare created four alien-like sculptures that he named Dysfunctional Family

Zorn, Anders (Swedish painter, etcher, and sculptor, 1860-1920)

Klinger, Max (German painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1857-1920)

Magritte, René (Belgian painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1898-1967)

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Segal, George (American sculptor, 1924-2000)

Cave, Nick (American sculptor and performance artist, born 1959)

Kaikei (Japanese sculptor, active 1183-1223)

sculptor

Falconet, Etienne-Maurice (French sculptor and author, 1716-1791)

Murray, Brett (South African sculptor, born 1961)

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