15 Impressive Sculptures of the Past and Present

Spread your wings | Taken at The Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno. This is an extensive cemetery located on a hillside in Genoa, Italy.

Galatea in Acis’ arms | The Medici Fountain sculpture in Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. August Otten, 1863.

Bathsheba | Benjamin Victor, 2013.

Satyr and Bacchante | Marbre de Jean-Jacques Pradier (Genève, 1790 – Bougival, 1852). Musée du Louvre (Paris)

The murdered Abel | Giovanni Duprè, St. Petersburg, 1842.

Leda and the Swan | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, 1870. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Nymph Salmacis | Francois Joseph Bosio, 1826. The Louvre.

Rape of Polyxena | Pio Fedi, 1865.

A mourning angel | One of the statues at the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa.

A maid | From the Crozatier Museum, France.

The Veiled Woman | Giovanni Battista Lombardi, 1869.

Beatrice Cenci | Harriet Hosmer, 1857.

Escapees from Pompeii | One of the sculptures at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve.

A maid with a dog | One of the sculptures at the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa.

Archimedes of Syracuse | Simon Louis Bouquet, 1752. The Louvre.