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May 23, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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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 🧵 Image
1. Ugolino and His Sons - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1867) ImageImage
2. Moses - Michelangelo (1515) ImageImage
3. The Abduction of Proserpina - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622) Image
4. Modesty - Antonio Corradini (1752) Image
5. The Veiled Virgin - Giovanni Strazza (1850s) Image
6. David - Michelangelo (1504) ImageImage
7. The Veiled Christ - Giuseppe Sanmartino (1753) Image
8. The Release from Deception - Francesco Queirolo (1759) Image
9. Pietà - Michelangelo (1499) Image
10. Apollo and Daphne - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1625) Image
11. The Veiled Hestia - Rafaelle Monti (1847) Image
12. The West Wind - Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1874) Image
13. Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova (1793) Image
14. Nymph - Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1864) ImageImage
15. Laocoön and His Sons - Unknown Image

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