Most famous sculpture artists around the world

Michelangelo once said, ‘every block of stone has a statue inside it and that it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Lets explore the most famous artists of all time 

1. Praxiteles (Active 370–330 BCE)  

When you picture ancient Greek sculpture, you’re probably imagining a lifelike figure carved from marble. You can thank Praxiteles of Athens for that.

2. Donatello (C. 1386–1466)

One of the most important artists of the early Italian Renaissance, Donatello originally trained as a goldsmith before entering the workshop of Lore

3. Michelangelo (1475–1564)

Michelangelo was a triple threat: A painter (the Sistine Ceiling), a sculptor (the David and Pietà) and architect (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome). 

4. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680)

Bernini is an architect, playwright and theatrical designer as well as artist. Bernini wrote the playbook on the Baroque period’s love of operatic scale

and emotional impact.

5. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)

The father of modern sculpture, Rodin eschewed the smooth surface, classical form and allegorical subject matter that characterized academic sculpture in the 19^th century. 

6. Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957)

Among the most influential artists of the 20th-century, Brancusi’s commitment to simplified form became a key template for sculptors who followed him.Giacometti (1901–1966) Most people remember Alberto Giacometti as the artist who created as the artist who created skinny figures, and indeed, these symbols of postwar angst are his signature achievements.