30 amazing details of sculptures that take your breath away (31 photos)
There is something about sculpture that always evokes genuine admiration, especially when it embodies the human form. Michelangelo lived and worked more than 500 years ago, but we are still amazed by his level of skill. Often, creators add intriguing details to their works, many of which undeservedly go unnoticed. Did you know that Michelangelo's David has heart-shaped pupils?
1. Chauncey Bradley Ives turned stone into wet silk in "Undine Emerging from the Water" (1880)
2. Antonio Canova's masterpiece has wings so delicate that when the sun hits them, they glow a delicate peach glitter

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Смотреть видео3. Giovanni Strazza achieved the effect of a translucent veil in his bust of the Virgin Mary

4. Francesco Queirolo skillfully carved a net from a block of marble. It took him 7 years to complete the work

5. Water effect from marble

6. Marble turned into lace

7. This is not cotton yarn. This is a stunning marble work by Greek master Argyris Rallias

8. There is one tiny muscle in the forearms that only contracts when you raise your little finger. Moses lifts his little finger, which is what Michelangelo captured

9. The marble veil in Giuseppe Sanmartino's masterpiece is so realistic that the sculptor was accused of using alchemy to turn the fabric into stone

10. Bernini turned stone into flesh

11. "The Veiled Truth" by Antonio Corradini

12. "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Agostino Fasolato, a 168 cm statue with over sixty figures carved from a single block of marble, Agostino Fasolato

13. Stunning detail of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's "Ugolino and His Sons"

14. Marble leather

15. Scarf on the marble statue of the Duke of Montausier

16. The right hand of "David" Michelangelo

17. Perseus and the Hidden Self-Portrait of Benvenuto Cellini

18. Marco D'Agrate's Statue Depicts Saint Bartholomew, a Skinned Christian Martyr alive

19. "The Veiled Lady", Raphael Monti

20. Detail of "The West Wind" by 19th century American sculptor Thomas Ridgway Gould

21. Marble mattress "Sleeping Hermaphrodite", Gian Lorenzo Bernini

22. Daphne's hands turning into branches. "Apollo and Daphne", Gian Lorenzo Bernini

23. 100 years before medical science described the circulatory system, Michelangelo perfectly depicted the jugular vein in his statue of David

24. "Pieta" by Michelangelo, detail hands

Buonarroti completed this masterpiece when he was only 24 years old.
25. The Beard of Emperor Lucius Verus

26. Haakon Anton Fagerås Creates a Marble Cushion

27. "Reading Girl" by Pietro Magni

If you look closely, you can see a tear from a young reader.
28. Michelangelo's David Has Heart-Shaped Pupils

29. The Piercing Glass Eyes of the "Ephebe of Antikythera", Unknown Greek Sculptor (c. 330 BCE)

30. Veins on the Right Hand David
