Sculpture

Bode Museum Berlin: Best Sculptures, Byzantine Art, and Coins

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Altarpiece from the Minden Cathedral in the Bode Museum

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

Visit the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin for 19th-Century Sculptures

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Visit the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin for a free exhibition of the 19th-century German sculptures of the Alte Nationalgalerie.

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

Visit the Thorvaldsens Museum of Sculptures in Copenhagen

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Ganymede and the Eagle of Zeus in the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen

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

See Ganymede Sculptures in the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen Denmark

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Thorlvadsen's Ganymede and the Eagle of Jupiter

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 Liebieghaus Museum Sculpture Collection in Frankfurt am Main

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Two marble Athenas are amongst the top sculptures in the LIebieghaus Museum in Frankfurt

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