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These astonishingly lifelike sculptures will take your breath away

We’ve put together an unusual post for you: here are some of the most impressive sculptures ever created by masters of the art past and present. Perhaps most people will be unfamiliar with them, but they have the power to astonish with their sheer beauty even at first sight.

’The Kiss’, Auguste Rodin, the Rodin Museum, Paris, 1882. This is one of Rodin’s most famous sculptures which depicts a noblewoman who lived in the 13th century, Francesca da Rimini. She fell in love with her husband’s younger brother. Her jealous spouse, when found out, killed both his wife and his brother.

’The Rape of Proserpina’, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Galleria Borghese, Rome, 1621-1622. When Bernini set out to create this sculpture he was just 23. He famously wrote that ’I conquered the marble; I made it as flexible as wax. This means that sculpture is now no different from painting.’


’The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Cornaro Chapel, Rome, 1645-1652. This sculpture is dedicated to Saint Teresa, a Spanish nun and Catholic saint who loved in the 16th century. In one of her letters, Teresa recounted how she had once dreamed that ’an angel in the flesh’ came to her and pierced her womb with a golden arrow.

’The Veiled Vestal’, Raffaelle Monti, mid-19th century. Monti had the incredible ability to sculpt figures so accurately that they looked they were wearing thin veils. He was famous for focusing in particular on the vestals — priestesses of Vesta, a Greek goddess.

’The Kiss of Death’, Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, 1930. The author of this piece is unknown, but it has been attributed to Jaume Barba. It is said that this sculpture inspired film director Ingmar Bergman to create The Seventh Seal, which focuses on the battle of wills between Death and a knight returned from the Crusades.

A fragment of the sculpture ’Ugolino and his sons’ by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1857-1860. The setting for the sculpture was taken from ’Inferno’, part of the epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. The scene describes the downfall of the tyrant of Pisa, who was imprisoned in a high tower together with his children and starved to death.

’Danaid’, Auguste Rodin, the Rodin Museum, Paris, 1885. This sculpture was conceived as part of wider project on ’The Gates of Hell’ for the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, but it ended up being preserved as an individual work of art.

A marble headstone in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Genoa, Italy. It was opened in 1851 and is famous for the large number of statues, mausoleums and sarcophagi.
Virtually all of the memorials in the cemetery were created by famous Italian sculptors of the 19th century: Santo Varni, Giulio Monteverde and others. The inhabitants of Genoa avoid this place — they find it disturbing due to the sheer number of extremely lifelike sculptures.

’Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss’ Antonio Canova, the Louvre, Paris and the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1787-1793. This sculpture depicts the god Cupid at the moment he wakes up Psyche with a kiss.

’Chastity’, Antonio Corradini, Cappella Sansevero, Naples, 1752. This statue was made in commemoration of the mother of Prince Raimondo, who died soon after giving birth.

’Sleeping Ariadne’, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Madrid, 1991.

’Sunday Morning’ Philippe Faraut, 2009. Faraut, a wood carver and furniture designer by profession, works with clay, marble and bronze to create sculptures. His depictions of individuals are distinguished by their attention to detail and hyper-realistic nature.

’Ophelia’, Michael James Talbot. This London-based artist and sculptor creates unusual, elongated sculptures of women. Inspired by Greek mythology, he combines the female form with abstract shapes and images in his work. Some of his sculptures are nearly two metres tall.

’Ballerina and Boy’, Kevin Frances Gray, 2013. Gray is distinguished by his passion for creating ’faceless’ sculptures. Here he depicts a ballerina who, standing on tiptoes, holds onto the lifeless body of a boy.

A sculpture made from aluminium wire, Seung Mo Park, 2013. This Korean artist creates sculptures by using thick layers of fibreglass and aluminium wire. This material allows him to recreate folds and wrinkles as well as the muscle structure of the human body with great accuracy.

This sculpture has the title of ’The Lena Beauty’, and has been placed by the banks of the river of the same name which runs through the far north of Russia. The image of a three-metre tall young girl all in white corresponds to the embodiment of this famous river offered by a famous Russian artist, Nikolai Chochasov.

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