A living heart beats under the marble skin

A living heart beats under the marble skin

Categories: Design and Architecture

They say a stone can't come to life. But the great masters of their craft have long proved that this is not the case. Unsurpassed masterpieces are born in their sensitive hands — you look at them, and it seems that a quiet sigh is about to be heard and your eyelashes will tremble.

We have collected for you sculptures from all over the world, striking in their beauty and realism.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

A living heart beats under the marble skin

1. Spread your wings (© Willem Havenaar)

One of the angels of the cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

2. Galatea in the hands of Acis (© Yvan LEMEUR)

Sculpture of the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Garden in Paris. Auguste Otten, 1863.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

3. Bathsheba (© benvictor)

Benjamin Victor, 2013.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

4. The Satyr and the Bacchante

Jean Jacques Pradier, 1833.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

5. The lost Abel

Giovanni Dupre, 1842.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

6. Leda and the Swan (© William (Bill) McClung)

Albert-Ernest Carrie-Bellez, 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

7. Nymph Salmakis (© Monica Michelle)

Francois Joseph Bosio, 1826. The Louvre.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

8. The Abduction of Polyxena

Pio Fedi, 1865.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

9. The Grieving Angel

One of the monuments of the Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

10. The Girl (© Yvan LEMEUR)

Crozatier Museum.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

11. A woman in a veil

Giovanni Batista Lombardi, 1869.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

12. Beatrice Cenci

Harriet Hosmer, 1857.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

13. Fleeing from Pompeii (© raaen99)

One of the monuments of the Ballarat Botanical Garden.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

14. A girl with a dog (© Maurizio)

Sculpture from the cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa.

A living heart beats under the marble skin

15. Archimedes (© sissydude)

Simon Louis Bouquet, 1752. The Louvre.

Keywords: Stone | Marble | Heart | Sculptures

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