This document provides an overview of sculptures from prehistoric times to modern eras. It describes notable sculptures from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Japan and other regions. Examples from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical and later periods are highlighted, including works by famous artists like Michelangelo, Bernini, Rodin, Matisse and Oldenburg. The document also features sculptures representing styles such as Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Dadaism and Pop Art.

1. VISUAL ARTS: SCULPTURES
ART APPRECIATION
ERWIN MARLON R. SARIO

2. PRE HISTORIC SCULPTURES
Venus of Hohle Fels,
35,000 - 40,000 BC
Venus of Brassempouy, 25,000 BC Venus of Willendorf,
25,000 – 30,000 BC

3. Replicas of the Venus of Tan Tan, 200,000 –
500,000 BC and Venus of Berekhat Ram,
230,000 – 700,000 BC
Punjab terracotta
figure, 25,000 BC

4. Lion Man of Hohlenstein, 40,000 BC
Shigir Idol, 11,500 BC,Sverdlovsk Regional
Museum of Local Lore, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

5. Ain Sakri Lovers, 11,000 BC
Swimming Reindeer, 13,000 BC

6. SCULPTURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - EGYPT
Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti,
1345 BCE,
Menkaura (Mycerinus) and
queen, Old Kingdom, Dynasty
4, 2490–2472 BCE
The Mask of Tutankhamun;
c. 1327 BC; gold, glass and
semi-precious stones

7. Wooden statue of the
scribe Kaaper; c. 2450 BC
Statue of a seated man; 2670–
2194 BC; painted limestone;
discovered in 1822
Statue of Menkaure with Hathor
and Cynopolis; 2551–2523 BC

8. Charioteer of Delphi, ancient Greek
bronze sculpture, 5th century BCE
Mycenae, 1600−1500 BCE. Silver
rhyton with gold horns and rosette on
the forehead
Peplos Kore, c. 530
BCE, Athens
SCULPTURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - GREECE

9. Hermes and the Infant
Dionysos, possibly an original
by Praxiteles, 4th century
Between 130 and 100 BC
Venus de Milo
Laocoön and his Sons, early first
century C.E (323BCE – 32CE)

10. SCULPTURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - ROME
Augustus from Prima Porta, 1st
century C.E.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, ca.
176 C.E.
Fonseca Bust, 2nd century C.E.

11. Trajan’s Column,
110 C.E.
Trajan’s Column is one of
many public works
commissioned by Emperor
Trajan after he conquered
Dacia (in modern day
Romania) in 107 C.E., a
victory that stretched the
Roman Empire to its
greatest size. The column,
which also served as
Trajan’s tomb, is over 100
feet tall and is decorated
with a continuous spiral
frieze commemorating the
two battles against Dacia.

12. SCULPTURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - CHINA
The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of
Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with
the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his
afterlife.
Gilt Bronze Human-Shaped Lamp
Western Han Dynasty (c.172 BCE)
Hebei Museum, Shijiazhuang, China.

13. A magnificent and extremely rare polychrome
wood figure of Water Moon Guanyin, Liao-Jin
dynasty (907-1234)
The Flying Horse of Gansu, also known as the Bronze Running
Horse or the Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow is a
Chinese bronze sculpture from circa 200 CE.

14. SCULPTURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - JAPAN
Dogū (Japanese literally "earthen figure") are
small humanoid and animal figurines made
during the later part of the Jōmon period
(14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan.
Shaka Triad (Shaka Sanzonzō
Treasure of Hōryūji Temple (Nara), 632 AD
Historical Buddha (aka Shaka) surrounded by
attendants Monju Bosatsu and Fugen Bosatsu.
Haniwa warrior in keikō
type armor, Ōta, Gunma
Prefecture, c. 6th
century AD.

15. The most famous Niō in Japan
can be found at the entrance
gate of Tōdaiji Temple in Nara.
These 26-feet-tall statues were
made in 1203 AD, reportedly
under the direction of the
famous
sculptors Unkei and Kaikei.
The Niō were introduced to
Japan in the 7th or 8th century.
The oldest extant statues of the
two in Japan (dated to 711) are
located at Hōryūji Temple in
Nara, and the 8th-century dry -
lacquer sculptures at Tōdaiji
Temple in Nara.

16. SCULPTURE IN MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Ascension of Christ and Noli
me tangere, c. 400
French ivory Virgin and Child, end
of the 13th century, 25 cm high,
curving to fit the shape of the
ivory tusk.
Enthroned Virgin and Child
1150–1200

17. Head of Christ, Medieval Gothic
Sculpture, 1352 An alabaster statue of
St. Philip, circa 1420-30,
Sarcophagus of the Infante
Felipe de Castilla
1274

18. SCULPTURE IN RENAISSANCE PERIOD
Pieta (1500)
St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
By Michelangelo. A perfect example
of restrained emotion in a work of
Christian art of the High Renaissance. David, by Michelangelo (1504 )
Michelangelo's Moses, (c.
1513–1515), San Pietro in
Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb
of Pope Julius II

19. Donatello, David, ca. 1440,
Florence
Hercules and the Centaur ” 1599 Artist :
Giambologna Period: Mannerism ( Late
Renaissance) At Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence,
Italy Type : Marble sculpture
Benvenuto Cellini's statue Perseus With
the Head of Medusa in The Loggia dei
Lanzi gallery on the edge of the Piazza
della Signoria, Florence. (1545-1554)

20. The Fountain of Neptune (Italian: Fontana
di Nettuno), Piazza del Nettuno, next to
Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy. An
early work by Giambologna, completed
about 1567.
The Fountain of Neptune, Rome
(1574) at Piazza Navona or
Stadium of Domitian
The Fountain of Neptune by
Bartolomeo Ammannati, Florence,
Italy 1563/1565.

21. SCULPTURE IN BAROQUE PERIOD
The Ecstasy of St Theresa
(1647–1652) Gian Lorenzo
Bernini
Apollo and Daphne (1622–
1625) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
David (1623–1624) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

22. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a
fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in
1651 by Gian Lorenzo Angel with Lance by Domenico Guidi (1669). The
statue is located on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, once the
Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, meaning the Bridge of
Hadrian, in Rome, Italy.

23. SCULPTURE IN ROCOCO PERIOD
Antonio Corradini, Pudicizia (Modesty),
1752 Cappella San Severo, Naples, Italy
Vertumnus and Pomone by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1760)

24. Pygmalion et Galatee by Étienne-
Maurice Falconet (1763)
Prometheus by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam (1762) Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744

25. SCULPTURE IN NEOCLASSICAL/ROMANTIC PERIOD
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss is a sculpture by Italian artist
Antonio Canova first commissioned in 1787 by Colonel John
Camp
Relief, The Departure of the Volunteers in 1792, La
Marseillaise, Arc de Triomphe, Place Charles de Gaulle,
Paris, France by François Rude

26. La Danse is an 1868 sculpture by the
French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
Ugolino and His Sons is a marble sculpture of
Ugolino made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in
Paris during the 1860
Le cavalier gaulois, by Auguste
Préault. 1853

27. IMPRESSIONIST SCULPTURES
Little Dancer of Fourteen
Years by Edgar Degas, c. 1881
The Thinker, bronze sculpture by Auguste
Rodin, cast in 1904; in the Rodin Museum,
Paris
The Gates of Hell, sculpture by Auguste
Rodin, 1880–1917, cast in bronze
posthumously; in the Kunsthaus Zürich.

28. The Waltz (French: La valse) by French artist
Camille ClaudelVarious versions were made from
1889 to 1905,
Auguste Rodin, The Walking
Man, c. 1877, bronze
Auguste Rodin
The Age of Bronze, ca. 1875
Bronze

29. EXPRESSIONIST SCULPTURES
Ernst Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor,
The Avenger, 1914, National Gallery of Art
The Magdeburger Ehrenmal (Magdeburg
commemorative sculpture) (1929), which
created a large controversy about Barlach's
anti-war position

30. Title: Crouching Woman
Creator: Erich Heckel
Date: 1912
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1911, Femme á
genoux (The Kneeling One), cast stone
Schwebender Engel or Güstrower
Ehrenmal by Ernst Barlach

31. FAUVIST SCULPTURES
Henri Matisse,
1905, Sleep, wood,
Henri Matisse, 1906–07, Nu couché, I (Reclining Nude, I),
bronze

32. CUBIST SCULPTURES
Pablo Picasso, 1909–10, Head of a
Woman (Fernande)
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Two views of 'The Large Horse, bronze, 1914

33. Jacques Lipchitz, 1916,
Sculpture, plaster
Henri Laurens, 1920,
Le Petit boxeur
Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)
Bronze.

34. FUTURIST SCULPTURES
Sir Jacob Epstein, Torso in Metal from
“The Rock Drill”, Bronze 1913-14
Bird in Space is a series of
sculptures by Romanian sculptor
Constantin Brâncuși. The original
work was created in 1923.
Futurist sculpture Sunbeam
Motorcycle by Otakar Švec 1924. Seen
in the Centre for Modern and
Contemporary Art, Veletrzni (Trades
Fair) Palace, Prague.

35. Futurist head - "Profilo Continuo (Head
of Mussolini)" by Renato Bertelli, 1933
Umberto Boccioni: Development of a Bottle in Space, 1912

36. SUPREMATISM SCULPTURES
Circle of Kazimir Malevich (Russian/Ukrainian, 1879–
1935)Title:
Suprematist sculptural composition

37. CONSTRUCTIVISM SCULPTURES
Head No. 2 1916, The Work of Naum Gabo
Spatial Construction no. 12, (1920) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

38. The Monument to the Third International (also
called “Tatlin's Tower”), original (now lost)
designed by Vladimir Tatlin, 1920
Vladimir Tatlin, 1916: 'Counter-
relief', sculpture
Constructivist propaganda figure, 1931

39. SURREALISM SCULPTURES
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936,
[Surrealism]
Alberto Giacometti Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932,
cast 1949 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

40. Salvador Dalí Lobster Telephone, 1938 Alberto Giacometti “The Palace at 4 a.m.” (1932)

41. DADAISM SCULPTURES
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
'Cadeau (Gift)' 1921 (Flat Iron with Brass
Tacks)
RAOUL HAUSMANN (1886-1971)
'The Spirit of Our Time', 1920 (assemblage)

42. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle wheel, 1913

43. POP ART SCULPTURES
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925- 2008)
'First Landing Jump', 1961
CLAES OLDENBURG (1922-), COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN (1942-2009)
‘Spoonbridge and Cherry’ 1988

44. 1963 Claes Oldenburg, Soft fur Cap de Barcelona, 1992 sculpture, mixed
media, Barcelona

45. Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on
Caterpillar Tracks, 1969
Untitled [Glass Tires], 1997
Blown glass, silver plated brass
Robert Rauschenberg