Sculpture of the present and the past
A guide to sculpture websites
Index: A B C D E G H I J K M P R S W
Sculptor Name Index
British
Bronze
Chinese
Classical
Contemporary
Dada
Environmental sculpture
Greek classical sculpture
Ice sculpture
Indian sculpture
Installations
Kinetic sculpture
Light art
Medieval
Public
Renaissance
Sand
Sculpture gardens
Wood
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African sculpture
African Studies Center. African Sculpture
African Sculpture
Images from a private collection.
African sculpture.
Wikipedia
African Wood Cultural Sculpture at NOVICA
American sculpture
Bronze sculptors in America.
Background information and images. Bronze Gallery
A list of American sculptors.
Wikipedia
American Sculptors (1850-present)
Top 40 American Sculptors: A Personal View
Collections of American Sculpture
Calder, Alexander
National Gallery of Art. Alexander Calder mobile.
Fraser, james Earle
James Earl Fraser
The Bronze Gallery
Australian sculpture
The Association of Sculptors of Victoria,
supporting sculptors and sculpture in Victoria. Exhibitions, sculptor search.
Moran, Sonya
Sculptures in marble, cold cast bronze, cold cast alloy, clear resin, marble and wood by Australian artist Sonya Moran.
Australian sculpture. Wikipedia entries.
National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery
Sculptor.org web directory for Australian sculptors.
Galleries, schools, sculptors, web resources.
Sculpture Parks & Gardens in Australia, a directory.
Sculpture by the Sea
Staged alongside Sydney’s spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi is Australia’s largest annual outdoor public exhibition of sculpture.
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Baroque sculpture
See also: Baroque art
Baroque sculpture in Italy. Scultura Barocca. Thais
Wikipedia entry on the Baroque.
Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Web Gallery of Art, image collection.
Bernini sculptures at Pinterest
Ecstasy of St. Teresa. Artchive
British sculpture
See also: Sculptors
British Contemporary Sculpture
Cass Sculpture Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that inspires and enables creativity in contemporary sculpture. Sculpture at Goodwood,a sculpture garden. Sculpture drawings, articles, archives, pictures.
Wikipedia. entries on British sculptors.
British Contemporary Sculpture
Sculpture at Goodward
The Royal Society of British Sculptors
Sculptors from England, an image gallery at Wikimedia Commons.
New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery
Bronze sculpture, a guide to websites.
Budapest Sculpture Park, Hungary.
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Cabaret Mechanical Theatre. A Museum of Automata
Canadian sculpture
Canadian sculptors, a list.
Wikipedia entries.
Canadian Sculptors and Sculpture
Sculpture.org
Espace Sculpture
A Canadian sculpture magazine with interviews and articles related to various aspects of three dimensionality.
Jock Hildebrand Sculpture Park
Sculptors Society of Canada
The Sculptors’ Society of Canada is dedicated to promoting Canadian Art and Artists.
Lemieux, Maurice. Maurice Lemieux
Born in 1931 in Valleyfield, Quebec, Lemieux began experimenting with sculpture, painting and other mediums in his teens. During the 60’s Lemieux started receiving commissions from real estate developers and architectural firms to create large scale murals and sculptures. For his facility in architectural design, his attention to detail, he soon earned the respect of his patrons.
Cass Sculpture Foundation. Goodwood Sculpture Garden, U.K.
Chinese sculpture
Sculptor.org web directory of Chinese sculpture.
Chinese sculpture, Wikipedia entries.
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Classical sculpture
Classical sculpture. Greek and Roman sculpture. Oxford University
Gods in Greco-Roman Sculpture, a web gallery.
Pheidias. Article on Pheidas, Greek sculptor of ancient times.
Wikipedia entry on Classical sculpture.
Elgin Marbles
History of the Elgin Marbles (Athens, Greece)
The British Museum and the return of The Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles
Contemporary sculpture
Contemporary sculptors, a list from Wikipedia.
Modern and contemporary sculptors, a list and image gallery from Wikipedia.
‘Top 10 sculptors working today’, an editorial at Artsy.
Rock art, archaeology and anthropology around the world.
The Bradshaw Foundation
The Keith Chapman sculpture gallery, London.
The Royal Society of British Sculptors
Committed to the pursuit of excellence in the art form, the Society aims to inspire, inform and engage people with sculpture.
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Dada sculpture
Hans Arp sculptures, Kroller-Muller Museum
Jean (Hans Arp). Art museums displaying works by Hans Arp.
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain/Urinal
Marcel Duchamp World Community
D’Art. Bronze sculptures and paintings.
The Digital Sculpture Project
This website is devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures. The Digital Sculpture Project focuses on the following issues:
3D data capture and documentation
Digital restoration
Digital tools for the processing and analysis of digitized sculpture, including colorization
Analysis of earlier forms of sculptural reproduction, particularly the cast.
Digital Imaging Project
Art Historical images of European and North American sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.
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Elgin marbles
Elgin Marbles
History of the Elgin Marbles (Athens, Greece)
The British Museum and the return of The Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles
The British Museum and The Parthenon Sculptures
Environmental sculpture, land art
See: Environmental sculpture, land art
Wikipedia entry on environmental sculpture.
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Gardens: Sculpture gardens, a list of websites
Gargoyles
Gargoyle Gallery, Washington University.
Geometry and abstract sculpture. The sculpture of mathematics.
Glass sculpture
Glass sculptors
Sculpture.org
Matejkova, Alena
Glass, ice and stone sculptures by Alena Matejkova.
Greek classical sculpture, a guide to websites.
Grounds for Sculpture
A public, not-for-profit institution committed to promoting contemporary sculpture through exhibitions, publications and the education of the general public. New Jersey, US.
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Hirshhorn Sculpture Gardens
The Digital Imaging Project
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Ice sculpture
Ice sculpture
Ice sculpture techniques, information, events, competitions. Ice Impressions.com
Matejkova, Alena
Melted glass, ice and stone sculptures by Alena Matejkova.
Ice Art
Ice Art, based in South Africa, we specialize in high quality, hand carved ice creations. They provide a full range of ice sculpting services including wedding ice sculptures, sculptures for product launches and events and live ice carvings.
Indian sculpture
Lotus Sculpture
South Indian sculpture in bronze, marble and granite. Statues of Hindu gods (Shiva, Shiva as Nataraja, Parvati, Ganesh, Lakshmi, Krishna, Vishnu, Sarasvati) and the Buddha for the home or garden.
International Sculpture Centre
General sculpture internet resources.
Installations, installation art
See also: Installation art, artists
Andy Plant, UK.
Mechanical sculptures for public art.
Artcylcopedia web directory of installation artists with work in art museums.
Wikipedia entries on installation artists.
International Sculpture Centre (ISC). Sculpture Magazine,
sculpture parks and gardens, searchable sculpture database by name, type and country.
Isamu Nogochi Garden Museum, New York
Sculpture galleries and garden.
Italian sculpture
Renaissance sculpture, Renaissance sculptors. Thais
Renaissance art, a guide to websites.
Sculptors. A list of Italian sculptors.
Wikipedia
Japanese sculpture
Japanese sculpture, Wikipedia entry.
List of national treasures, a gallery of Japanese sculptures and statues through the ages. Wikipedia
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Kirishima Open-Air Museum
Sapporo Art Park
The sculpture garden in Sapporo Art Park features over seventy sculptures by regional and international sculptors.
Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open-Air Museum
Kinetic sculpture
Kinetic art, kinetic sculpture
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Laocoön and His Sons. Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, early 1st century. The Vatican.
Light sculpture
An image gallery of light art at Wikimedia Commons.
The Light Art Biennale, Austria
Paul Friedlander, kinetic light artist.
David Batchelor (artist and writer) Wikipedia entry.
David Batchelor. Saatchi Gallery, London
Isamu Noguchi
The Akari Light Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi.
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Medieval sculpture
Medieval Sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art
European Decorative Arts and Sculpture. Art Institute of Chicago
Medieval sculptures, an image collection from Pinterest.
Netsurf. Medieval resources on the internet.
Gothic sculptures, Wikipedia entries.
Wikipedia entries on Medieval European sculptures.
Wikimedia Commons image gallery of Medieval sculptures.
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Nasher Sculpture Center
An outdoor “roofless” museum situated in downtown Dallas housing the sculpture collection of Raymond and Patsy Nasher.
National Sculpture Society, US.
The oldest organization of professional sculptors in the United States.
19th century Sculpture.
Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist and Symbolist sculpture.
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Organizations and associations.
Sculptor.org.
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Period and style *
Sculptures by period, an image gallery at Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait sculptors. The Society of Portrait Sculptors
Photographic sculpture
Kate Moss in glorious 3D: The art of photographic sculpture – CNN.com
Public sculpture
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, Britain
Public sculpture, stone carving, gargoyles by Walter S. Arnold, US.
Sculpture gardens, a guide to websites.
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Renaissance sculpture
Renaissance sculpture, Renaissance sculptors.
Thais
Sculptors of the Renaissance.
Wikipedia entries.
Renaissance sculpture in Italy (1250-1539), history and characteristics.
Italian Renaissance sculptors, a web gallery from Thais.it
Bronze Renaissance sculpture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Renaissance art, a guide to websites.
Donatello
Donatello. Thais image gallery.
Donatello. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Amazing Donatello: An Itinerary of Sculpture by Donatello in Florence
The Ascension Relief by Donatello, 1428-30. Victoria and Albert Museum
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Web Gallery of Art
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Wikipedia
Michelangelo
Michelangelo; sculptures by Michelangelo.
The Web Gallery of Art
Michelangelo sculptures Renaissance gems. Italian Renaissance Art
St. Peter’s Basilica
Sand sculpture
Paul Hoggard & Remy Geerts, sand artists.
Master sand sculptors with a combined experience of 27 years in creating sand sculptures.
Paul Hoggard and Remy Geerts. YouTube
Sculptor.org.
A comprehensive online resources for sculptors. Sculpture schools, children’s sculpture, bronze sculpture, iron sculpture.
The Sculpture Center, Ohio, US.
A nonprofit organization fostering the careers of emerging sculptors and promoting the preservation of outdoor sculpture. Outdoor sculpture, young sculptors, sculptor news.
Sculpture gardens, sculpture parks
The Society of Portrait Sculptors
Sound sculpture
The Audio Foundation, New Zealand
Includes links to sound sculpture websites.
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