It’s said that you can’t bring stone to life. But great artistic talents throughout history have shown, one after the other, that this is not in fact the case. Some truly unparalleld wonders have been created by their capable hands, the sight of which can take your breath away.
Here are a few sculptures we’ve found which are quite simply astounding in their beauty and realistic portrayal of the human form.
A beautiful stone effergy in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Genova
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’Latona and her children, Apollo and Artemis’
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William Henry Rinehart, 1870. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
’The Dying Gladiator’
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Pierre Julien, 1779. The Louvre, Paris.
’Despair’
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Jean-Joseph Perraud,1868. The Louvre, Paris.
’The Awakening of Dawn’
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Ben Victor, 2013.
’Marble veil’
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Raffaelle Monti, mid-19th century. Devonshire Collection.
’Death’
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Granada, Spain.
’Young Tarantine’
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Alexandre Schoenewerk, 1871. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
’The Exiled’
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Antonio Soares Dos Reis, 1872. Chiado Museum, Portugal.
’Young woman’
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Musée Crozatier, France.
’The nymph Salmacis’
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François-Joseph Bosio, 1826. The Louvre, Paris.
’Chastity’
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Antonio Corradini, 1752. San Severo Chapel, Naples.
’Cassandre se met sous la protection de Pallas’
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Aimé Millet, 1877. Tuileries, Paris.
