The most famous sculptures in the world
The top 3 according to 20 votes from people: David — Michelangelo · Venus de Milo · Statue of Liberty — Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. (Updated Dec 17, 2021.)
From the Venus de Milo to Cloud Gate: the sculptures that every guide to famous art agrees on.
Top 22
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David — Michelangelo
1501-1504, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.
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Venus de Milo
c. 100 BC, attributed to Alexandros of Antioch. Louvre.
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Statue of Liberty — Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Dedicated 1886, New York Harbor.
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Great Sphinx of Giza
c. 2500 BC, the oldest known monumental sculpture.
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Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski
1931, above Rio de Janeiro.
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The Little Mermaid — Edvard Eriksen
1913, Copenhagen harbour.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace
c. 190 BC, at the top of the Louvre's Daru staircase.
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Pietà — Michelangelo
1498-1499, St Peter's Basilica.
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The Kiss — Auguste Rodin
1882, two lovers from Dante's Inferno.
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Bust of Nefertiti
c. 1345 BC, Neues Museum, Berlin.
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Discobolus — Myron
c. 460-450 BC, known from Roman copies.
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Terracotta Army
c. 210 BC, thousands of soldiers guarding China's first emperor.
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The Thinker — Auguste Rodin
1880s, first conceived for The Gates of Hell.
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Moai of Easter Island
c. 1250-1500, carved by the Rapa Nui.
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15
Laocoön and His Sons
Hellenistic, rediscovered in Rome in 1506. Vatican Museums.
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa — Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1647-1652, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
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Apollo and Daphne — Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1622-1625, Galleria Borghese.
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Moses — Michelangelo
c. 1513-1515, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.
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Walking Man I — Alberto Giacometti
1960, once the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
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Cloud Gate — Anish Kapoor
2006, "The Bean" in Chicago's Millennium Park.
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Charging Bull — Arturo Di Modica
1989, left in Wall Street as guerrilla art.
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Bird in Space — Constantin Brâncuși
1923 onwards, flight reduced to a single form.
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