# The most famous sculptures in the world

From Michelangelo's David to the Venus de Milo, from Rodin's Thinker to the moai of Easter Island: the most celebrated statues and sculptures of all time. Which is the most beautiful?

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- Mar 11, 2022 · historybuff_venezia
- https://even.best/en/l/2293/the-most-famous-sculptures-in-the-world

## Top 24

1. **Michelangelo's David** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Carved between 1501 and 1504, in Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia.
2. **Michelangelo's Pietà** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — In St Peter's Basilica, behind protective glass.
3. **Venus de Milo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Greek statue from the 2nd century BC, in the Louvre.
4. **Winged Victory of Samothrace** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The winged Victory at the top of the Louvre's staircase.
5. **The Thinker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Auguste Rodin's bronze, born for The Gates of Hell.
6. **The Kiss** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The embracing lovers in marble, at the Musée Rodin in Paris.
7. **Statue of Liberty** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — France's gift to New York, from 1886.
8. **Christ the Redeemer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arms open over Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro.
9. **Discobolus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Myron's discus thrower, known from Roman copies.
10. **Laocoön and His Sons** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Hellenistic group in the Vatican Museums.
11. **Apollo and Daphne** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bernini turns a nymph into a tree, at the Galleria Borghese.
12. **The Rape of Proserpina** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pluto's hand sinking into the marble, by Bernini.
13. **Ecstasy of Saint Teresa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bernini's Baroque masterpiece in Santa Maria della Vittoria.
14. **Michelangelo's Moses** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — In the tomb of Julius II at San Pietro in Vincoli.
15. **Veiled Christ** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Giuseppe Sanmartino's marble veil, in Naples.
16. **Perseus with the Head of Medusa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Benvenuto Cellini's bronze in the Loggia dei Lanzi.
17. **Riace bronzes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two Greek warriors found off Calabria in 1972.
18. **Nefertiti Bust** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Egyptian queen, at the Neues Museum in Berlin.
19. **Terracotta Army** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thousands of warriors guarding the first Chinese emperor.
20. **Moai of Easter Island** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The huge stone heads of the Rapa Nui people.
21. **Great Sphinx of Giza** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The human-headed lion in front of the pyramids.
22. **Manneken Pis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The most famous little bronze in Brussels.
23. **Walking Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alberto Giacometti's thread-thin figure.
24. **Balloon Dog** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jeff Koons's steel balloon dog.

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