Emily Young, Solar Disc, c.2006. Onyx carved to 150cm — one billion years of geological time, polished into light. The stone does what no lens can.

#sculpture #EmilyYoung #sculptor

Jago (Jacopo Cardillo), Pietà, 2021. Carrara marble, the classical subject inverted, a man holds the body, grief stripped of iconography. Carved in Naples, now permanent at the Jago Museum, Rione Sanità.

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Marino Marini, Angel of the City, 1948. Bronze rider, arms wide, face to the sky, fully present in every sense. Marini’s horse-and-rider series darkens across decades; this one still believes in something.

#sculpture #MarinoMarini #sculptor​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Novello Finotti, Maschera Bianca, 1982. White marble compressed into surrealist form, two faces folded into one. Vatican commissions, Venice Biennale, sixty years carving between Verona and Pietrasanta.

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Aron Demetz, Senza Titolo (the tainted), 2013. Maplewood carved smooth, then layered with silicon resin like botanical growth consuming classical form. Man and nature as one.

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Nicola Hicks, Grey, 2012. Bronze cast from plaster and straw, every texture preserved. Championed by Elisabeth Frink, collected by Tate.

#sculpture #NicolaHicks #sculptor

Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.

#sculpture #MariaMartins

Kehinde Wiley, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 2022. Bronze from the Archaeology of Silence series. Dreadlocks braided against stone, classical myth in contemporary form. @deyoungmuseum

#sculpture #KehindeWiley #sculptor

Barbara Hepworth, marble group, early 1950s. Light dances around and through translucent stone carved thin enough to glow. One figure rough like standing stones, the other polished smooth with a pierced opening.

#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth

Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.

#sculpture #CamilleClaudel

Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961. Bronze cast from 1939 plaster, turquoise interior against warm patina. Strings radiating like tension between herself and the Cornish sea.

#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth

Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.

#sculpture #CamilleClaudel

Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.

#sculpture #MariaMartins

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

#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture

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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Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1983. Mahogany carved for tenderness, a Black woman sculptor honoring Black motherhood.

#sculpture #ElizabethCatlett

Pablo Atchugarry, Untitled, 1999. Carrara marble folded like fabric, carved for translucency. @hollistaggart.bsky.social

#sculpture #CarraraMarble

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.

@tate.bsky.social
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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.
#sculpture #sculptor

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.

@seattleartmuseum.bsky.social

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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.

@britishmuseum.bsky.social
#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