# The most famous sculptures in the world

From the Venus de Milo to Cloud Gate: the sculptures that every guide to famous art agrees on.

- 20 votes · 22 items
- Dec 17, 2021 · Travis Anderson
- https://even.best/en/l/2305/the-most-famous-sculptures-in-the-world

## Top 22

1. **David — Michelangelo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1501-1504, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.
2. **Venus de Milo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — c. 100 BC, attributed to Alexandros of Antioch. Louvre.
3. **Statue of Liberty — Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Dedicated 1886, New York Harbor.
4. **Great Sphinx of Giza** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — c. 2500 BC, the oldest known monumental sculpture.
5. **Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1931, above Rio de Janeiro.
6. **The Little Mermaid — Edvard Eriksen** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1913, Copenhagen harbour.
7. **Winged Victory of Samothrace** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — c. 190 BC, at the top of the Louvre's Daru staircase.
8. **Pietà — Michelangelo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1498-1499, St Peter's Basilica.
9. **The Kiss — Auguste Rodin** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1882, two lovers from Dante's Inferno.
10. **Bust of Nefertiti** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — c. 1345 BC, Neues Museum, Berlin.
11. **Discobolus — Myron** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — c. 460-450 BC, known from Roman copies.
12. **Terracotta Army** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — c. 210 BC, thousands of soldiers guarding China's first emperor.
13. **The Thinker — Auguste Rodin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1880s, first conceived for The Gates of Hell.
14. **Moai of Easter Island** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1250-1500, carved by the Rapa Nui.
15. **Laocoön and His Sons** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hellenistic, rediscovered in Rome in 1506. Vatican Museums.
16. **Ecstasy of Saint Teresa — Gian Lorenzo Bernini** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1647-1652, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
17. **Apollo and Daphne — Gian Lorenzo Bernini** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1622-1625, Galleria Borghese.
18. **Moses — Michelangelo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1513-1515, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.
19. **Walking Man I — Alberto Giacometti** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1960, once the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
20. **Cloud Gate — Anish Kapoor** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006, "The Bean" in Chicago's Millennium Park.
21. **Charging Bull — Arturo Di Modica** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1989, left in Wall Street as guerrilla art.
22. **Bird in Space — Constantin Brâncuși** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1923 onwards, flight reduced to a single form.

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