There are great sculptors, and then there are those whose abilities to transform stone border on the divine. These are 15 of the most astonishingly lifelike marble sculptures ever created 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Ko0XzlTL72
2023-05-24 08:41:551. Ugolino and His Sons - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1867) pic.twitter.com/CByAO70voj
2023-05-24 08:41:562. Moses - Michelangelo (1515) pic.twitter.com/zXHWGm9asW
2023-05-24 08:41:573. The Abduction of Proserpina - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622) pic.twitter.com/SrUdg9ZSLp
2023-05-24 08:41:574. Modesty - Antonio Corradini (1752) pic.twitter.com/P7zhRLoGyg
2023-05-24 08:41:585. The Veiled Virgin - Giovanni Strazza (1850s) pic.twitter.com/K4MsxuqVbq
2023-05-24 08:41:586. David - Michelangelo (1504) pic.twitter.com/Ayoh3kZ8NF
2023-05-24 08:41:597. The Veiled Christ - Giuseppe Sanmartino (1753) pic.twitter.com/LfZFTGab3i
2023-05-24 08:41:598. The Release from Deception - Francesco Queirolo (1759) pic.twitter.com/HsmFfjhkP9
2023-05-24 08:42:009. Pietà - Michelangelo (1499) pic.twitter.com/o9CFHz9jab
2023-05-24 08:42:0010. Apollo and Daphne - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1625) pic.twitter.com/EkTqxMnvF8
2023-05-24 08:42:0111. The Veiled Hestia - Rafaelle Monti (1847) pic.twitter.com/fHhiD6cYHu
2023-05-24 08:42:0112. The West Wind - Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1874) pic.twitter.com/orHM6oC015
2023-05-24 08:42:0213. Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova (1793) pic.twitter.com/ostbKpH6Hy
2023-05-24 08:42:0314. Nymph - Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1864) pic.twitter.com/Hb6s7JgnD6
2023-05-24 08:42:0315. Laocoön and His Sons - Unknown pic.twitter.com/4V83UQ2Jlp
2023-05-24 08:42:04@Culture_Crit Did Carpeaux carve this marble, or did he sculpt it in clay and have it produced in marble? pic.twitter.com/kptjVDgiI7
2023-05-24 10:05:15@Culture_Crit Don't forget this virtuoso masterpiece ... pic.twitter.com/CGOnXE7GU0
2023-05-24 08:51:43@Culture_Crit Sleeping Beauty, Ophelia, and Emperor Constantine. pic.twitter.com/2mMf8NpZ5s
2023-05-24 08:58:03@Culture_Crit @jordanbpeterson I like this one, personally. It's not a painting! This is actually a sculpture! pic.twitter.com/92JMKLRCaV
2023-05-24 08:58:30@Culture_Crit Yo amo esta de Bernini, La visión de Constantino. pic.twitter.com/iaees4yjTd
2023-05-24 09:09:16@Culture_Crit We already have this back home. pic.twitter.com/pU4UPM0so6
2023-05-24 10:18:42@Culture_Crit Paolina Borghese - Antonio Canova (1808) pic.twitter.com/CiAf35ne0A
2023-05-24 08:45:55@Culture_Crit @JeremyTate41 don’t forget this one pic.twitter.com/TPKzdsAXtu
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