Showing posts with the label Sculpture

The Sculpted Rocks of Rothéneuf

Mar 10, 2022

In 1879 in a small town in the south-east of France called Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, a postman began the construction of a fantastic palace, w...

The Curious Tale of The Laocoön And His Sons’ Missing Arm

Feb 12, 2021

The story of Laocoön, the Trojan priest who was attacked and killed along with his two sons by giant serpents for attempting to expose the r...

Stanley Kubrick’s Rejected Monolith

May 27, 2020

The iconic Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was originally not a mysterious black slab. The director wanted it t...

The Beatles’ Bumprints in Plymouth Hoe

Jan 31, 2020

The Chinese Theater in Hollywood Blvd is famous for its many footprints and handprints of celebrities set into concrete blocks, but where ca...

Glass Flowers And Sea Creatures: Leopold And Rudolf Blaschka’s Ultra Realistic Glass Models

Jan 7, 2020

A glass flower at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. It is nearly impossible to preserve a dead specimen in a pristine manner. Larg...

The Unbelievably Delicate Marble Sculptures at Cappella Sansevero

Dec 9, 2019

In the late 16th century, the Duke of Torremaggiore, Giovan Francesco di Sangro, after a miraculous recovery from a serious illness, erected...

“The Miraculous Journey” By Damien Hirst

Nov 19, 2018

A series of fourteen monumental bronze sculptures chronicling the gestation of a fetus inside a womb, from conception to birth, is one of th...

The Homeless Jesus Sculpture

Nov 15, 2018

Since 2013, Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz has been placing a particular sculpture depicting a homeless man sleeping on a bench in citie...

Kryptos: The Mystery Sculpture At CIA’s Headquarters

Jul 13, 2018

For the past 17 years, a cryptographic puzzle has stood on the grounds of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, taunting cryptograph...

The Pig of Lucerne

Aug 3, 2017

Below is a photograph of one of Lucerne’s most famous tourist attraction. You may recognize it as the “Lion of Lucerne”— a rock relief sculp...

Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum

Feb 4, 2016

The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...

Shigir Idol: The World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture

Nov 27, 2015

In the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a 9 feet tall wooden statue enclosed in a glass box. Called the...

‘The Force of Nature’ by Lorenzo Quinn

Aug 14, 2015

“The Force of Nature” is a series of sculptures by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn depicting mother nature as a woman hurling the planet aroun...

The Enchanted Highway, North Dakota

Jun 24, 2015

The Enchanted Highway is a 32-mile stretch of highway starting at Exit 72 on Interstate 94, about 20 miles east of Dickinson, in the southwe...

Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Dancing Power Pole in Oberhausen

Jun 10, 2015

On the banks of the Emscher River, near the wooded public garden Gehölzgarten Ripshorst, in the German city of Oberhausen, stands a peculiar...

A-maze-ing Laughter in Vancouver

May 30, 2015

A-maze-ing Laughter is a collection of 14 enormous bronze statues depicting a shirtless guy laughing hysterically. It was installed in 2009 ...

The Hand of Punta del Este

May 28, 2015

The Hand of Punta del Este, or Mano de Punta del Este , is a sculpture of a hand partially emerging from sand and located at Brava Beach in ...

The Angel of The North

May 6, 2015

The Angel of the North is a steel sculpture of an angel with outstretched wings that stand 20 meters tall on top of a hill in Tyneside, outs...

“Greetings to the Sun” – A Solar Powered Light Installation in Croatia

Feb 7, 2015

Greetings to the Sun is a permanent art installation located on the waterfront of the vibrant medieval port city of Zadar in Croatia. Create...

Sultan The Pit Pony

Nov 17, 2014

Sultan the Pit Pony is a massive 200 metre raised-earth sculpture in Caerphilly, in South Wales. The sculpture is affectionately named “Sult...