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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/04/2026
The sculptures of Luo Li Rong look like living beings, frozen for centuries by the wand of a master magician.
426
Dibyendu Banerjee
11/02/2026
La Nymphe Echo, a marble sculpture created by the French sculptor Paul Lemoyne, immortalized one of the saddest figures in Greek mythology.
701
Dibyendu Banerjee
23/12/2025
Located in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, The Children are the Victims of Adult Vices is an allegory of the fight against the adult vices.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
15/11/2025
The Story of Love, a bronze statue located near the Bridge of Lovers in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, depicts an elderly man and a woman locked in a ti ...
930
Dibyendu Banerjee
23/09/2025
The Age of Maturity, a symbolic sculpture created by the French artist Camille Claudel, has a definite history behind it.
770
Dibyendu Banerjee
08/08/2025
The Bacchantes, created by Alexandre Falguière, a 19th-century French sculptor and painter, depicts two nude young women fighting like two ragpickers.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
18/06/2025
Medusa with the Head of Perseus, created by Luciano Garbati, was inspired by a 16th-century bronze statue of Benvenuto Cellini, named Perseus with the Head ...
1080
Dibyendu Banerjee
05/05/2025
Located on the stretch leading to the Eiffel Tower, the Flame of Liberty was installed in 1989 as a symbol of friendship between France and the USA.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/03/2025
Located in the Chaudfontaine Park, in the outskirts of Liege in Belgium, the 20 feet tall giant Clothespin Sculpture was created by Mehmet Ali Uysal.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/01/2025
Located within a sliver of parkland in Glarus, Switzerland, The Caring Hand is a surprising sculpture that rises from the ground and gently wraps its finger ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/12/2024
The Fat Policeman, a hilarious and amusing bronze statue standing in a bustling pedestrian area of Budapest is a beloved icon of the city.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/10/2024
Designed by the Swiss artist Daniel Berset and constructed by carpenter Louis Genève, the gigantic Broken Chair with a mutilated leg, dominates Palais de ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/09/2024
Located along the shore of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, Mélancolie is an unusual sculpture created by Albert Gyorgy.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/07/2024
Located in Wroclaw, Poland, the chilling bronze sculpture, called Passage, was created by the Polish sculptor Jerzy Kalina.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
16/06/2024
The huge Apennine Colossus, depicting Father Apennine, was created between 1579 and 1580 by the Flemish sculptor Jean de Boulogne, better known as Giambolo ...
1825
Dibyendu Banerjee
12/05/2024
Located on Grafton Street in Dublin, the bronze sculpture representing Molly Malone, a young woman selling sea food on the street, was created by Jeanne Ryn ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/04/2024
Located in the centre of Madrid, The Bear & the Strawberry Tree is symbolically attached to the city and the subject of a popular local folklore.
2013
Dibyendu Banerjee
24/02/2024
Created by Judith Weller, the 8-feet bronze sculpture called the Garment Worker is located at 555 Seventh Avenue in New York City.
2011
Dibyendu Banerjee
15/01/2024
Located in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium, De Vaartkapoen is a permanent piece of street art, created in 1985 by the Belgian artist Tom Frantzen,
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/07/2023
The veiled Christ, a life-sized marble statue created by Giuseppe Sammartino, is considered a masterpiece of 18th century sculpture.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/05/2023
Moses was completed by Michelangelo in 1545 and was installed in San Pietro in Vincoli, instead of in St. Peters Basilica as planned originally.
1936
Dibyendu Banerjee
31/03/2023
Night, a marble sculpture created by Michelangelo between the years 1526 and 1531, is located in the Sagrestia Nuova, a part of the Basilica di San Lorenzo ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/02/2023
In his work Soaked Bathsheba, Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, depicted her as a young woman with a beautiful sexy body in a long wet dress.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
12/12/2022
The legend of Kopakonan or the Seal Woman is one of the best-known folktales in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing archipelago, is located between Iceland ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/05/2021
The Reclining Venus, a lively sculpture by Lorenzo Bartolini, was created after the famous painting, titled The Venus of Urbino, by the Italian painter Titian.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/03/2021
Here is the graceful and fiery Cleopatra, the wonderful and flaming Egyptian queen, created by the Italian sculptor Antonio Balzico in the 1870s,
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/02/2021
Once upon a time, the medieval residents of Coventry in England suffering immensely beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes pleaded in vain to their powerful l ...
3356
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/02/2021
The Sleeping Ariadne, housed in the Vatican Museums, is a Roman Hadrianic copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Pergamon School of the 2nd century.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/01/2021
Regarded as the largest equestrian sculpture in the world, the magnificent art piece titled The Mustangs of Las Colinas, created by the reputed Kenyan sculp ...
3317
Dibyendu Banerjee
09/12/2020
Located in the wilderness of a hot and barren landscape and far away from the nearest locality, the Hand of the Desert has no barriers or fences.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/11/2020
Known as Pi-Chacan in the native Peruvian Quechuan language, the huge sculpture of a giant vagina, created by Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara, was insta ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/11/2020
Commonly called the Bean for its distinctive kidney-bean shape and silver surfer polish, the Cloud Gate located in the Millennium Park is arguably the most ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/10/2020
The 20 feet long and 8 feet high evocative sculpture called Freedom is a spontaneous manifesto about the struggle of mankind for the achievement of freedom.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/10/2020
Famous for its street architecture, Rundle Mall in Adelaide contains ‘A Day Out’, a bronze sculpture of a group of life-sized pigs rooting around a rubb ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/09/2020
The Double Statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta, exhibited in the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, is probably the most photographed sculpture in the museum.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/09/2020
A lighted sculpture entitled Absorbed by Light displayed was outside the Hermitage Amsterdam Museum, during the annual light festival of 2018-2019.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/08/2020
Just like an awesome creature escaped from a nightmare, the sculpture of a giant spider, named Mamon, was created by the French artist Louise Bourgeois.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/08/2020
Man at work is the unusual bronze statue in the Old Town of Bratislava that depicts the torso of a man, who peeks his head from underneath a manhole cover.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
26/07/2020
Expansion is the name of the masterpiece of the American sculptor Paige Bradley, whose work is said to be focused on tensions and liberation.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/07/2020
Created by the French artist Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol, the monumental nude depicted in L’Air, seems to float in space, though it is made of lead.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/06/2020
The composite sculpture of Apollo served by the Nymphs, created by François Girardon, is the most purely classical work in French seventeenth-century sculp ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/06/2020
The enchanting mythological story of the Pygmalion and Galatea, the story about a Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture, was turned into ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/05/2020
Siesta is a Spanish word that stands for a nap or a short sleep, usually taken after the midday meal, which is rather a common traditional practice in some ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/05/2020
La Nymph Salmacis was created by the internationally renowned sculptor Giuseppe-Francesco Bosio, better known as François-Joseph Bosio, 250 years ago.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/04/2020
In his exotic sculpture Satyr and Bacchante, the French sculptor Jean-Jacques Pradier depicted the attempted rape of bacchantes by a satyr.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
18/04/2020
Curajici postavy (Piss) is a sculpture and fountain in Prague that depicts two mechanical statues of man waggling their bronze penises and urinating in public.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/04/2020
A statue titled ‘Woman Bitten by a Snake’, commissioned by the industrialist Alfred Mosselme and created by the French sculptor Auguste Clesinge
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/03/2020
Created by the master Italian sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) between 1846 and 1851, the first version of his Nymph with a scorpion was exhibited in ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/03/2020
The composition of the sculpture Diane d’Anet or Diana with a Stag, depicting a semi-reclining Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, accompanied by her tw ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/02/2020
La Toilette d’Atlanta, created by Jean-Jacques Pradier, is rated by some art critics as the most complete work of art of the entire 1850-1851.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/02/2020
The Aphrodite of Knidos, created by Praxiteles between 360 and 330 BC was the first full-sized naked female sculpture in Greek history.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/01/2020
Phryne was an ancient Greek courtesan from the fourth century BC, born in Thespiae (Boeotia), but spent most of her life in Athens. She was named Mnesarete.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/01/2020
Aphrodite of Milos, widely known as Venus de Milo, is one of the most famous examples of ancient Greek sculpture, which is recognizable by its missing arms.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/12/2019
Undisputedly considered as one of the most iconic works in the history of art, Michelangelo’s David was originally a part of a larger project.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/12/2019
It is impossible for anybody to enter St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, without noticing the Pieta, perhaps the most poetic and marvellous sculpture ever created.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
29/11/2019
Beata Ludovica in Ecstasy, the last full life figure of Ludovica, created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is set above the altar of the Altieri ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/11/2019
Venus Victrix is a semi-nude reclining life-size sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, which was commissioned by Camillo Borghese
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/11/2019
The Flemish sculptor Giambologna completed the marble group of the Heracles and the Centaur Nessus in 1599. In mythology, Heracles was the son of Zeus and A ...
4946
Dibyendu Banerjee
20/10/2019
A Hermaphrodite is an unusual word for an unusual condition that happens to a small number of person or animal, who have the reproductive organs of both men ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/10/2019
The Dying Gaul or the Dying Galatian, an ancient Romanian depiction of a defeated Celtic warrior, was probably unearthed in a Roman garden.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/09/2019
In Greek mythology Princess Andromeda was the daughter of King Cepheus of Aethiopia and Queen Cassiopeia. The queen said that her daughter was beautiful.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/09/2019
Neptune and Triton, the marble sculpture created by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1622-23, depicts the life-size figure of Neptune
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Dibyendu Banerjee
26/08/2019
The monumental statue of Laocoon and His Sons depicts the horrible scene of sufferings of the helpless Trojan priest and his two sons, based on Virgil’s A ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
12/08/2019
The Rape of the Sabine Woman, created by Giambologna, a Flemish sculptor based in Italy, is one of the most recognised works of sixteenth-century Italian art.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
29/07/2019
The splendid marble sculpture of ‘Ugolino and His Sons’, was created by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French sculptor and painter, born on 11 May 1827
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Dibyendu Banerjee
15/07/2019
The Gates of Hell, a colossal double door sculpture that stands at a towering 20 feet, is the master creation of the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/07/2019
Like the immortal Kiss, the Three Shades is also a single part of Auguste Rodin’s huge compositional piece, known as the Gates of Hell.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/06/2019
Created by Auguste Rodin and simply known as the Kiss, the exquisite marble sculpture of two naked lovers fused with passion, is a representation of love.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/06/2019
The Thinker is perhaps universally known as a master creation of the renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The Gates of Hell was on the 16th century long.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/05/2019
Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini created his masterpiece 'Ecstasy of Saint Teresa', for the Cornaro Chapel in Rome's Santa Maria della Vittoria.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/05/2019
A sculpture of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros, exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, in Greece, is estimated to be carved at about 100 BC.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/05/2019
On the edge of Hyde Park in London, the Animals in War Memorial is a war memorial dedicated to the countless animals that served and died alongside the British.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
28/04/2019
Retold by many Hellenistic and Roman authors, the story of the Apollo and his love for the nymph Daphne is originally a story from ancient Greek mythology.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
13/04/2019
Sensing a deep problem, Zeus, the king of the gods, intervened and sent Mercury to the Underworld to ask his brother, Hades to return Proserpina.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/04/2019
However, that was not the end of the story, but that romantic moment was immortalized by Antonio Canova in his sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupids Kiss.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/03/2019
Installed along the bank of the Danube River in Budapest in 2005, the Shoes on the Danube Promenade, is perhaps the most chilling Holocaust memorial in the ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/03/2019
The Three Graces were Aglaia, symbolizing elegance, splendour and brilliance; Thalia, representing youth, beauty and jubilation; while Euphrosyne signifying.
