Marcello (Adèle d’Affry), Chef abyssin, c1870. 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. @MuseeOrsay #sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury

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. #sculpture #sculptor

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. @matthewmarksgallery | @Tate #sculpture #sculptor

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. @BrunoCatalano | @ravagnangallery #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. #sculpture #sculptor

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. #sculpture #sculptor

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. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn to @hirshhorn #sculpture #sculptor #ArnaldoPomodoro

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 #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 #sculpture #Phoenician #AncientArt

Constantin Brâncuși, Bird in Space, 1923. Marble polished to pure abstraction, capturing essence of flight. #sculpture #Brancusi #ModernSculpture

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 @MuseumModernArt #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. @Estorick #sculpture #sculptor #GiacomoManzù #ItalianModernism

Tony Cragg, In No Time (wood, 2018) and Versus (bronze, 2023). Stratified layers and arrested motion. Magnificent. @ThaddaeusRopac #sculpture #sculptor #TonyCragg #ContemporarySculpture

Aron Demetz, Untitled, 2009. Wood and spruce resin gathered from South Tyrol forests, carved by 500-year-old Val Gardena technique. Exhibited Italian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale. @la_Biennale #sculpture #VeniceBiennale

Marc Quinn, Siren, 2008. Solid 18-carat gold, Kate Moss as Venus for our image-obsessed age, unveiled at the @britishmuseum during the financial crisis. @_MarcQuinn #sculpture #sculptor #MarcQuinn #KateMoss

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

Giuseppe Penone, *Sculture di linfa*, 2005-2007. Carrara marble walls, leather holding bark's memory, resin flowing through carved wood. @Giuseppe_Penone | @Gagosian #sculpture #GiuseppePenone #ArtePovera

Barbara Hepworth, The Family of Man, 1970. Bronze. Nine figures rising from Yorkshire hillside like ancient menhirs. @YSPsculpture holds the only complete set in Europe. #sculpture #BarbaraHepworth #ModernSculpture

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