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Marcello (Adèle d’Affry), Chef abyssin, c. 1870. Swiss sculptor working in Paris under a male pseudonym. Marble bust with bronze clasp and lapis lazuli, One of only seven women with work at the Musée du Luxembourg in the 19th century.

#sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury

Rebecca Warren, The Models (b.) and The Models (a.), 2025. Hand-painted bronze on shared plinth. Turner Prize nominee working the surface until permanence holds the marks of making.

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Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
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Belvedere Torso, Apollonius of Athens, 1st century BC. Fragment of heroic marble that Michelangelo refused to restore—the incomplete form already perfect. Seated power that shaped Renaissance and modern sculpture.

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Farnese Hercules, Roman copy after Lysippus, c. 216 AD. Exhausted hands gripping the apples of the Hesperides behind his back: the hero’s labor complete, strength to weariness.
Monumental marble that shaped outdoor sculpture for centuries.

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Giacomo Manzù, Bust of a Woman, 1952. Bronze portrait of Signora Lampugnani, first version won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1948 Venice Biennale.

#sculpture #sculptor #GiacomoManzù #ItalianModernism

Gislebertus, Last Judgment, c. 1120-1135. Limestone tympanum where souls are weighed and damned contort in terror.

Plastered over in 1766, rediscovered in 1837—salvation through disdain. Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun.

#sculpture #sculptor #Romanesque

Arnaldo Pomodoro, Sphere No. 6 (Sphere within a Sphere), 1963-1965.

Polished bronze sphere fractured to reveal intricate mechanical interiors.

#sculpture #sculptor #ArnaldoPomodoro

Helen Clarke, Twelve Roots, 2023. Bronze. Upturned roots arranged like a henge, marking time through agrarian cycles.

Winner of Chanel Next Prize commission, RCA Sculpture MA 2023.

#sculpture #HelenClarke #bronze

Staying with Charles Despiau: Madame Stone, 1926-27. Bronze portrait bust capturing the refined features and inner calm that defined Despiau’s intimate classicism.

Bequest of Chester Dale to @metmuseum.org

#sculpture #sculptor #CharlesDespiau #FrenchModernism

Phoenician carved shell (Tridacna), 700-600 BC. A woman’s head carved from the umbo, the windblown shell becoming her cloak.

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#sculpture #Phoenician #AncientArt

Charles Despiau, Assia, 1938. Life-size bronze standing nude, worked in secret for four years before unveiling at the 1937 Paris Exposition. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim to @moma.bsky.social

#sculpture #sculptor #CharlesDespiau #FrenchModernism

Giacomo Manzù, Bust of a Woman, 1952. Bronze portrait of Signora Lampugnani, first version won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1948 Venice Biennale.

#sculpture #sculptor #GiacomoManzù #ItalianModernism

Tony Cragg, In No Time (wood, 2018) and Versus (bronze, 2023). Stratified layers and arrested motion. Magnificent.

#sculpture #sculptor #TonyCragg #ContemporarySculpture​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Aron Demetz, Untitled, 2009. Wood and spruce resin gathered from South Tyrol forests, carved by 500-year-old Val Gardena technique. Exhibited Italian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale.

#sculpture #VeniceBiennale

Marc Quinn, Siren, 2008. Solid 18-carat gold, Kate Moss as knotted Venus for our image-obsessed age, unveiled at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social during the financial crisis.

#sculpture #sculptor #MarcQuinn #KateMoss

Helen Clarke, Twelve Roots, 2023. Bronze. Upturned roots arranged like a henge, marking time through agrarian cycles.

Winner of Chanel Next Prize commission, RCA Sculpture MA 2023.

#sculpture #HelenClarke #bronze

Giuseppe Penone, *Sculture di linfa*, 2005-2007. Carrara marble walls, leather holding bark's memory, resin flowing through carved wood.| @gagosiangallery.bsky.social

#sculpture #GiuseppePenone #ArtePovera

Barbara Hepworth, The Family of Man, 1970. Bronze. Nine figures rising from Yorkshire hillside like ancient menhirs. Yorkshire a sculpture Park holds the only complete set in Europe.

#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth #ModernSculpture

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622. Carrara marble; Pluto's fingers pressing into yielding flesh. Striking.

#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture

Berlinde De Bruyckere, from "A simple prophecy," Hauser & Wirth Zurich, 2023. Bronze, lead, wax—cowled figures bearing witness.

#sculpture #BerlindeDeBruyckere #ContemporarySculpture

Constantin Brâncuși, Bird in Space, 1923. Marble polished to pure abstraction, capturing essence of flight.

#sculpture #Brancusi #ModernSculpture

Phoenician carved shell (Tridacna), 700-600 BC. A woman’s head carved from the umbo, the windblown shell becoming her cloak.

@britishmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #Phoenician #AncientArt