The object index
Artworks
A growing collection of sculptures selected for close looking. Every launch image is Open Access, and every record links directly to its museum source.
33 objects · 4 museum collections · Open Access
Chola India
Cleveland Museum of Art
Nataraja, Shiva as the Lord of Dance
Unknown Tamil sculptor · 11th century
Romanticism
The Walters Art Museum
Python Killing a Gazelle
Antoine-Louis Barye · 19th century
Late Medieval Europe
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold
Claus de Werve · 1404–10
Hellenistic Antiquity
The Walters Art Museum
Copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos
Roman sculptor, after Praxiteles · 3rd–2nd century BCE
Kamakura Japan
Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of Hottō Enmyō Kokushi
Unknown Japanese sculptor · ca. 1295–1315
Enlightenment
The Walters Art Museum
Bust of Benjamin Franklin
Attributed to Jean-Antoine Houdon · late 18th century
Ancient Egypt
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Seated Statue of Hatshepsut
Unknown Egyptian sculptor · ca. 1479–1458 BCE
Archaic Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marble Statue of a Kouros
Unknown Greek sculptor · ca. 590–580 BCE
Renaissance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sprite
Sculptor or metalsmith close to Donatello · 1432
Baroque
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro Bernini · ca. 1616–17
Neoclassicism
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minnehaha
Edmonia Lewis · 1868
Modernism
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adam
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881; cast 1910
Modernism
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Honoré de Balzac
Auguste Rodin · 1891
Modernism
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1884–95; cast 1985
Modern
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Age of Bronze
Auguste Rodin · 1875–76
Renaissance
Cleveland Museum of Art
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Francis and Giovanni Gualberto
Benedetto Buglioni · c. 1510–20
Renaissance
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dovizia (Plenty)
Giovanni della Robbia · c. 1520–29
Early modern
Cleveland Museum of Art
Study for The Blessed Alessandro Sauli
Pierre Puget · 1663–1668
Early modern
Cleveland Museum of Art
Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · designed 1645–46, probably made 1650–55
Early modern
Cleveland Museum of Art
Descent from the Cross
Adam Lenckhardt · 1653
Medieval
Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Buddha (sculpture)
Unknown maker · 1100s
Early modern
Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint Peter of Alcántara
Pedro de Mena · c. 1663–70
Modern
Cleveland Museum of Art
Indian Combat
Edmonia Lewis · 1868
Renaissance
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fata Morgana
Giambologna · c. 1572
Early modern
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)
Unknown · probably shortly before 1704
Museum collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bib for a statutette
Unknown maker · 18th century
Modern
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861
Modern
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862
Museum collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays
Unknown maker · 1st–2nd century CE
Long nineteenth century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helmet crest from a nja masquerade
Grassfields artists · ca. 1800–80
Museum collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century
Neoclassicism
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz
Lorenzo Bartolini · 1821-1822
Museum collection
Victoria and Albert Museum
Head of Vishnu, sandstone, late 7th century, Cambodia
Unknown · Late 7th century