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  • Matthew Barney
    Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing, and whose works explore intertwining connection...
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    Polish-American sculptor (sculptured many busts and statuettes of important pre-Civil War figures), insurrectionist of 1830 and 1863. Henry was well and widely educated. He graduated from the Univers...
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    Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ RCA (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen si...
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    Isabel Bloom (February 20, 1908 – May 1, 2001) was an Iowa artist best known for her concrete sculptures of animals and children.

The great sculptors through the ages=

Classical Greek Sculpture • V - I centuries BCE

  • Myron of Eleutherae (mid 5th-century BCE) One of the greatest sculptors of Early Classical Greek sculpture. Famous sculpture: the disc thrower known as Discobolus (c.425 BCE).
  • Phidias (488-431 BCE). One of the greatest sculptors of Classical Antiquity, and the greatest carver of High Classical Greek sculpture. Famous sculptures: Athena at the Parthenon, Athens; the colossal figures of Zeus at Olympia (one of the Seven Wonders of the World).
  • Polyklitus (5th century BCE) One of the most important and greatest sculptors of classical antiquity. Famous sculpture: The Doryphoros or Canon of Sikyon.
  • Praxiteles (375-335 BCE) One of the most famous and greatest sculptors of ancient Greece. Fanous sculptures: Hermes with the Infant Dionysius and Aphrodite of Knidus.
  • Leochares (4th Century BCE) Leading figures in Athenian Hellenistic Greek sculpture of the 4th century BCE. Famous sculptures: Diana of Versailles and Apollo Belvedere.
  • Lysippos (c.395-305 BCE) One of the greatest sculptors of the Late Classical period of Greek sculpture. Famous sculpture: Socrates.
  • Hagesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus (mid 1st-century BCE) Three sculptors from the island of Rhodes. Famous sculpture: Laocoon and His Sons (c.42-20 BCE), One of the two most famous sculpture from Ancient Greece (the other is Venus of Milo).

Roman Sculpture • I century BCE - IV century CE

Middle Ages Sculpture • V to XIV centuries

  • Nicola Pisano (c.1220/1225 – c. 1278) Italian sculptor, sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture.
  • Giovanni Pisano (c. 1250 – c. 1315) Italian sculptor, painter and architect.
  • Luca della Robbia (1399 – 1482) Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terra-cotta roundels.

XV Century Sculpture

XVI Century Sculpture

XVII Century Sculpture

  • Giovanni Bernini (1598 – 1680). The dominant sculptor and architect of the Counter-Reformation Baroque.

XVIII Century Sculpture

  • John Bacon (1740-1799) was a British sculptor.
  • John Bacon, (1777–1859) was an English sculptor, son of above
  • Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867) (sometimes misspelled Bailey) -English sculptor who was born in Bristol.
  • Thomas Banks (December 29, 1735 – February 2, 1805) English sculptor.
  • Benedetto Sangiovanni

XIX Century Sculpture

  • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (Aug. 2, 1834 – Oct. 4, 1904) French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.
  • Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917), French sculptor, generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture. Rodin remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside the visual arts community.
  • Mahonri Macintosh Young (1877 – 1957) American sculptor and artist from Utah. Lived most of his life in New York City. Was the Grandson of Brigham Young. Young is one of the best-known artists from Utah

XX Century Sculpture

  • Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (1880 – 1959) American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture.
  • חנה אורלוף Chana Orloff (1888 – 1968) Ukraine-born Israeli figurative sculptor.
  • Jacques (Chaim Jacob) Lipchitz (1891-1973) A Cubist sculptor. One of the most acclaimed and innovative sculptors of the twentieth century.
  • Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) American sculptor and artist, first to produce mobiles and stabiles.
  • Henry Moore OM CH FBA (1898 – 1986) English sculptor and artist. Best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
  • Yitzhak Danziger יצחק דנציגר (1916 – 1977) Israeli sculptor. One of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group.
  • Karol Broniatowski , Wikipedia (born 23 April 1945 in Łódź) Famous Polish sculptor who lives and works in Berlin.