There are great sculptors, and then there are those whose abilities to transform stone border on the divine.
These are 15 of the most astonishingly lifelike marble sculptures ever created 🧵
1. Ugolino and His Sons - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1867)
2. Moses - Michelangelo (1515)
3. The Abduction of Proserpina - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622)
4. Modesty - Antonio Corradini (1752)
5. The Veiled Virgin - Giovanni Strazza (1850s)
6. David - Michelangelo (1504)
7. The Veiled Christ - Giuseppe Sanmartino (1753)
8. The Release from Deception - Francesco Queirolo (1759)
9. Pietà - Michelangelo (1499)
10. Apollo and Daphne - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1625)
11. The Veiled Hestia - Rafaelle Monti (1847)
12. The West Wind - Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1874)
13. Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova (1793)
14. Nymph - Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1864)
15. Laocoön and His Sons - Unknown
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