The Bode Museum on Museum Island in Berlin is home to one of the world’s largest collections of ancient sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins. The Bode Museum in Berlin displays one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of European sculptures from the Middle Ages, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods. It also includes the Museum … Read more
The Borghese Gallery in Rome has some of the finest Bernini sculptures in the world including three of the most influential works of the Baroque period: The Abduction of Proserpina, David, and the magnificent Apollo and Daphne. The Borghese Gallery (Museo e Galeria Borghese) in the Villa Borghese Park is one of the best art … Read more
Bernini’s daring Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Santa Maria della Vittoria Church in Rome is one of the best Baroque marble sculptures ever. Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is the main reason to visit the otherwise unassuming small Baroque church of Santa Maria della Vittoria near Rome’s Termini station. This marble sculpture is a … Read more
The Liebieghaus Museum in Frankfurt am Main is home to a top sculpture collection (Skulpturensammlung) from antiquity to neoclassicism. One of the finest sculpture collections in the world is in the small Liebieghaus Museum on the banks of the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany. Around 3,000 sculptures of exquisite quality are on permanent display with … Read more
Sculptures of Ganymede — the handsome mortal snatched from earth by an eagle to become cupbearer for the gods on Mount Olympus — are favorites in the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Bertel Thorvaldsen, a famous Danish sculptor who worked mostly from Rome during the 19th century, made several sculptures of Ganymede. The best one … Read more
Visit the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen to see the complete collection of the sculptures and art gallery of the Danish classical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The purpose-built Thorvaldsens Museum is a gallery to display sculptures, copies, models, and sketches of all the works produced by Bertel Thorvaldsen, as well as his own collection of art, antiquities, … Read more
Visit the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin for an exhibition of the 19th-century German sculptures of the Alte Nationalgalerie. The brick Neo-Gothic Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin provides a spectacular setting for the “Ideal and Form” permanent exhibition of 19th-century sculptures by artists associated with the Berliner Bildhauerschule (Berlin school of sculptors). Around 50 works are on … Read more