Thread of mind-blowing sculptures 𧡠1. Crocodile holding fish, Konark Sun Temple
2. The lady holding musical instrument in dancing posture. Lo9k at the beautiful jewellery
3. Bernini turned stone into flesh
4. The delicate translucency Giovanni Strazza achieved in his Virgin Mary bust is nothing short of extraordinary.
5. Looks like a 3D animation! An extremely rare manifestation of Lord Sri Krishna sculpture with a lone single face, 2 hands but 5 bodies in different positions.
6. The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture made in 1930 and found in Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona.
7. This intricate net was carved from a single block of marble by Francesco Queirolo. It took him 7 years. No apprentice would touch the sculpture for fear of the delicate net crumbling in their hands.
8. The winged sandals of "Perseus with the Head of Medusa" by Antonio Canova. The level of detail is simply beyond belief.
9. Bernini managed to depict hands turning into branches and leaves in his life-sized sculpture of Apollo and Daphne.
10. The West Wind This surreal marble masterpiece was not created by a Renaissance artist, but rather by the 19th-century American sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould. Zoom in to fully appreciate this piece.
11. Bernini was only 25 years old when he breathed life into this block of marble. Though Michelangeloβs David is iconic, those who visit Galleria Borghese in Rome are treated to Gian Lorenzo Bernini's stunning rendition of the biblical hero.
12. Psyche revived by Cupid's kiss by Canova "I can't read or write, but with these two tools, I can create poetry," he often said, holding his hammer and chisel.
13. Giuseppe Sanmartino's Veiled Christ is so incredibly lifelike that he was accused of using alchemy to turn fabric into stone. Canova was so impressed by the sculpture that he claimed he would give up ten years of his life to create such a marvel.
14. The mesmerizing ability to turn marble into lace... The magnificent bust of Maria Duglioli Barberini by Giuliano Finelli (1626).
15. Gian Lorenzo Bernini crafted this marble mattress for the "Sleeping Hermaphroditus," an Ancient Roman sculpture. Its astonishing realism was so convincing that when it was first unveiled, visitors were compelled to touch it, unable to believe it was carved from stone.
16. Many consider the statue of David to be the most beautiful work of art ever created by man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that "its greatness is beyond all descriptions."
17. This statue by Marco dβAgrate depicts Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive. If you look closely, youβll notice thatβs not a robe that heβs holding. It's actually his dissected skin.
18. Michelangelo was a genius. There is a small muscle in the forearm that contracts only when the little finger is raised. In his statue of Moses this tiny muscle is contracted, indicating that the pinky is lifted.
19. The handkerchief of the statue of Duc de Montausier by Louis Philippe Mouchy will never cease to amaze me.
20. The Fall of the Rebel Angels, a 168 cm (5"6') sculpture with more than sixty figures carved from a single block of marble by Agostino Fasolato.
21. Noβ¦itβs not a bronze sculpture, it`s in fact made from single piece of rock and that too around 900 years ago!!
