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Great
Masters of Sculpture
The statues, monuments, and other sculptures in the
following list have been chosen because of the fame they
have won, independent of their artistic merit, and because
they are on public view. They are listed chronologically,
except for the group title Non-Western. Some of the works
are representative of a famed artist, many of whose works
are equally well known. The creators of some of the earliest
works are unknown.
ANCIENT
EGYPT
The
Great Sphinx, c. 2900 B.C., limestone and masonry; Giza,
Egypt.
Queen Nefertiti, c.1365 B.C., painted limestone; State Museum,
West Berlin.
Colossi of Ramses II, c.1230 B.C., sandstone; Abu Simbel,
Egypt.
ANCIENT
GREECE
Charioteer
of Delphi, c.470 B.C., bronze; Delphi, Greece, Museum.Myron:
Discobolus (Discus Thrower),
marble Roman copy of Myron’s bronze original of c.450
B.C.; Terme Museum, Rome.
Phidias: Parthenon Sculptures, c. 438 B.C., marble (by or
under direction of Phidias); British Museum, London.
Polyclitus; Doryphorus (Spear Bearer) marble Roman copy
of Polyclitus original of late 5th century B.C.; National
Museum, Naples.
Praxiteles: Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, c. 350
B.C., Museum, Olympia; Aphrodite of Cidus, marble Roman
copy of Praxiteles’ original of 330 B.C.; Vatican,
Rome.
Scopas: Head from the Temple at Tegea, c. 350 B.C., National
Museum, Athens.
Lysippus: Apoxyomenos (athlete cleaning himself with a scraper),
marble Roman copy of Lysippus bronze original of 330 B.C.;
Vatican, Rome
Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory) c. 300 B.C., marble;
Louvre, Paris.
Aphrodite of Melos (Venus of Milo), 2d Century B.C., marble;
Louvre, Paris.
Laocoon, 2d Century B.C., marble, by Agesander, Athenodorus
and Polydorus of Rhodes; Vatican, Rome.
ANCIENT
ROME
Augustus,
c. 20 B.C., marble; Vatican Rome.
Caracalla, 211-217 A.D., marble; National Museum, Naples.
GOTHIC
Virgin of Paris, early 14th Century, stone: Notre Dame Cathedral,
Paris.
Claus Sluter: Moses, c. 1400, stone; Champmol Monastery,
near Dijon.
Tomb of Phillippe Pot, c. 1480, painted stone; Louvre, Paris.
RENAISSANCE
Donatello:
St. George, c. 1415, marble; National Museum, Florence:
Gattamelata, 1445-50, Bronze; Piazza del Santo, Padua.
Andrea del Verrocchio; Colleoni, c. 1485, bronze: CampoSS,
Giovani e Paolo, Venice.
Michelangelo Buonarroti: David, 1501-04, marble; Academy,
Florence; Pieta, 1498-99, marble; St. Peter’s Rome.
Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 16th
Century, marble: Loggia del Lanzi, Florence.
Gianlorenzo Bernini: Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1645-52, marble;
Santa Maria della Vittoria Church, Rome.
NON-WESTERN
Buddha Vairocana, 8th Century A.D., bronze; Nara, Japan.
Tlaloc (Toltec Rain God), 900 A.D., or earlier, stone; Anthropology
Museum, Mexico City.
Amida Buddha, 1252, bronze; Kamakura, Japan.
Aztec Calendar Stone, 1427-29, painted volcanic rock; Anthropology
Museum, Mexico City.
Stone Heads, 17th Century or earlier, Easter Island.
Mask with Horns, 19th Century, wood, from southeast Congo
(Ba uba); Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Buddha, 1960, concrete; Changhua, Taiwan.
18TH-19TH-
CENTURIES
Jean
Antoine Houdon: George Washington, 1788-92, marble; State
Capitol, Richmond, Va.
Thomas Crawford; Statue of Freedom, bronze, 1863; atop the
Capitol Dome, Washington, D.C.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi; Liberty Enlightening the World,
1886, copper on steel frame; Liberty Is., New York.
Augusto Rodin: The Thinker, 1879-89, bronze; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Augustus St. Gaudens: Abraham Lincoln, 1887, bronze; Lincoln
Park, Chicago.
John Quincy Adams Ward; Henry Ward Beecher, bronze, 1891;
Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, New York.
Aristide
Maillol; The Mediterranean, 1902-05, bronze; Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
Mateo Alonso; Christ of the Andes, 1904, bronze; Uspallata Pass,
Chile-Argentina border.
Ivan Mestrovic: My Mother, 1908, marble; Statue Museum, Belgrade.
Constantin Brancusi: The Kiss, 1908, stone: Philadelphia Museum
of Art; Bird in Space, 1927, bronze; Museum of Modern Art, New
York.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Kneeling Woman, 1911, cast in stone; Museum
of Modern Art, New York.
Edvard Erichsen: The Little Mermaid; 1913, bronze; Copenhagen
Harbor.
Daniel Chester French: Abraham Lincoln, 1922, marble: Lincoln
Memorial, Washington, D.C.
William Zorach: Child with Cat, 1926, marble; Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
Gaston Lachalse: Standing Woman, 1912-27, bronze; Albright Art
Gallery, Buffalo.
Ernst Barlach: Hovering Angel, 1927, bronze: Antoniter Church,
Cologne
Jacob Epstein: Madonna and Child, 1927, bronze, Riverside Church,
New York.
Heitor da Silva Costa and Paul Landowski: Christ the Redeemer,
1931, reinforced concrete; Corcovado Mtn., Rio de Janeiro.
Vernon March: Canadian War Memorial, 1926-32 (dedicated 1939),
bronze; Confederation South Ottawa.
Paul Manship: Prometheus, 1934, bronze and gold leaf; Rockefeller
Center, New York.
Alexander Calder: Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939, steel wire,
aluminum; Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Carl Milles: Meeting of the Waters Fountain, 1940, Aloe Plaza,
St. Louis; Millsgarden Sculpture, Stockholm.
Gutzon Borgium: Mt. Rushmore National Memorial 1927-41, granite;
Near Keystone, S.D.
Gustave Vigeland: Sculpture Park, 1906-43, stone and bronze, Oslo
Pablo Picasso: She-Goat, bronze, 1950: Museum of Modern Art, New
York.
Felix de Weldon: Marine Corps
War Memorial (Iwo Jima Flag Raising), 1954, bronze: Arlington
National Cemetery, Virginia.
Jose de Creeft: Alice in Wonderland, 1959 bronze; Conservatory
Lake, Central Park, New York.
Henry Moore: Reclining Figure, 1963-65, bronze; Lincoln Center,
New York.
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