“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” - Michelangelo
One masterpiece of sculpture from each major period of Western art - a thread 🧵
One masterpiece of sculpture from each major period of Western art - a thread 🧵
1. Archaic Greek: “The Dying Warrior” from the Temple of Aphaia (marble) - Unknown sculptor (c.490 BC)
2. Classical Greek: “Antikythera Ephebe” (bronze) - Unknown sculptor (c.340 - 330 BC)
3. Hellenistic Greek: “Laocoön and His Sons” (marble) - Unknown sculptor (c.323 BC - 31 AD)
4. Roman: “Augustus of Prima Porta” (bronze) - Unknown sculptor (c.20 BC)
5. Romanesque: The Brunswick Lion (bronze) - Unknown sculptor (c.1164 - 1176)
6. Gothic: “The Well of Moses” (Asnières stone) - Claus Sluter (c.1403)
7. Early Renaissance: “David” (bronze) - Donatello (c.1440)
8. High Renaissance: Pietà (marble) - Michelangelo (1499)
9. Mannerist: “Hercules and the Centaur Nessus” (marble) - Giambologna (1599)
10. Baroque: “The Abduction of Proserpina” (marble) - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622)
11. Rococo: “Modesty” (marble) - Antonio Corradini (1752)
12. Neoclassical: “Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss” (marble) - Antonio Canova (1793)
13. Romantic: “Ugolino and His Sons” (marble) - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1867)
14. Modern: “The Gates of Hell” (bronze) - Auguste Rodin (1917)
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