The most famous sculptures in the world
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Michelangelo's David · Michelangelo's Pietà · Venus de Milo. (Updated Mar 11, 2022.)
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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Top 24
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Michelangelo's David
Carved between 1501 and 1504, in Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia.
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Michelangelo's Pietà
In St Peter's Basilica, behind protective glass.
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Venus de Milo
Greek statue from the 2nd century BC, in the Louvre.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace
The winged Victory at the top of the Louvre's staircase.
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The Thinker
Auguste Rodin's bronze, born for The Gates of Hell.
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The Kiss
The embracing lovers in marble, at the Musée Rodin in Paris.
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Statue of Liberty
France's gift to New York, from 1886.
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Christ the Redeemer
Arms open over Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro.
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Discobolus
Myron's discus thrower, known from Roman copies.
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Laocoön and His Sons
The Hellenistic group in the Vatican Museums.
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Apollo and Daphne
Bernini turns a nymph into a tree, at the Galleria Borghese.
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12
The Rape of Proserpina
Pluto's hand sinking into the marble, by Bernini.
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13
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Bernini's Baroque masterpiece in Santa Maria della Vittoria.
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14
Michelangelo's Moses
In the tomb of Julius II at San Pietro in Vincoli.
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15
Veiled Christ
Giuseppe Sanmartino's marble veil, in Naples.
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Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Benvenuto Cellini's bronze in the Loggia dei Lanzi.
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Riace bronzes
Two Greek warriors found off Calabria in 1972.
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Nefertiti Bust
The Egyptian queen, at the Neues Museum in Berlin.
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Terracotta Army
Thousands of warriors guarding the first Chinese emperor.
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Moai of Easter Island
The huge stone heads of the Rapa Nui people.
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Great Sphinx of Giza
The human-headed lion in front of the pyramids.
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Manneken Pis
The most famous little bronze in Brussels.
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Walking Man
Alberto Giacometti's thread-thin figure.
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Balloon Dog
Jeff Koons's steel balloon dog.
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