Post striking Sculptures

Perfection can be created by human hand. This is proved by masters all over the world, whose ingenious sculptures seem to come to life from marble, clay and bronze. Looking at these works of art, it's hard to believe that a cold stone can create a complete feeling of a living body. For you, we have selected the most delightful examples of sculptures by different authors, which you can admire endlessly.

Sculpture "The Abduction of Proserpine". Marble. Height 295 cm. Borghese Gallery, Rome. Lorenzo Bernini created this masterpiece when he was 23 years old, in 1621.

Statue of "Chastity" by Antonio Corradini. Marble. 1752. Chapel of San Severo in Naples. The sculpture is a tombstone monument to Prince Raimondo's mother, who gave him his life at the cost of her own.

Sculpture "Cupid and Psyche" by Antonio Canova. Marble. Height 155 cm. 1800-1803 year. The god Cupid awakens the sleeping Psyche with a kiss.

"I'm beautiful." Auguste Rodin "The Gates of Hell". 1880.

Marble tombstone at the Monumental Cemetery-Museum of Staglieno in Genoa. It was discovered in 1851 and is known for a huge number of highly artistic statues, mausoleums and sarcophagi.

The authors of most of the sculptures in the cemetery of Staglieno are the most famous Italian sculptors of the late XIX century — Santo Varni, Giulio Monteverde and others.

"Marble Veil". The Virgin Mary in marble performed by Giovanni Strazza. The middle of the XIX century.

Sculpture "Mourning for Christ" (Pieta) by Michelangelo. Height 174 cm . St. Peter's Cathedral, Vatican City. The figures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were carved by a 24-year-old master from marble.

"Denial" is the work of the modern sculptor Philippe Faro. Clay. 2008. A wood carver and furniture designer by training, Philippe Faro works with clay, marble and bronze. An unsurpassed master of portrait sculpture.

"Ecstasy of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni" (1474-1533). Tombstone in the Church of St. Francis on the shore in Rome. Sculptor Lorenzo Bernini.

"Despair." Jean-Joseph Perrault. 1868. The sculpture is in the Louvre Museum.

"The Three Graces" by Antonio Canova. Marble. Height 182 cm . Between 1813 — 1816 Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.