Throughout the history of sculpture, the masters like Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo da Vinci used religious imagery in their sculptural works. However, approximately from the fourteenth to the sixteenth-century sculpture became more concerned with anatomically accurate and naturalistic representations.
Among the most influential names in sculpture is Auguste Rodin - a hugely influential sculpture artist that triggered the turn to modern sculpture and one of our favorites, Constantin Brancusi - the figure that gave the art form the inspiration it needed to move away from the representational form. Dive deeper into the understanding of sculpture with 1605: from the classic sculptors out of the museums to contemporary artists who are changing the course of art history today.
Victoria Zschommler
Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth (Hellenistic period, 2nd century BCE), marble (© SMB / Antikensammlung)
