1. The Thinker The Thinker, a bronze statue by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, is a sculpture that embodies the basic characteristics of Rodin's sculpture and portrays a working man immersed in a pose of extreme pain.
2. David David, a 3.96-meter-high marble sculpture of the human body, was created by Italian sculptor Michelangelo Bonarotti between 1501 and 1504, and is currently housed in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, embodies the body of the fit, muscular human figure of one of the most boastful male nude statues in the history of Western art.
3. Venus of Milos This marble sculpture of Venus with broken arms, currently in the Louvre Museum in France, was created by the ancient Greek sculptor Arisandros in 150 B.C. It is a marble sculpture of a human figure that reflects the ideological tradition of the heyday of Greek sculpture.
4. Statue of Athena Created in 438 B.C. by the Greek sculptor Phidias, the original sculpture, which reflects the spirit of Athens' prosperous era, was destroyed during the Byzantine era and is now housed in a marble copy in the Athens Ethnographic Museum.
5. Discus Thrower The discus thrower, sculpted in bronze by the Greek sculptor Milon in 450 B.C., is an example of later artistic creation based on the Greek sporting event.
6. Christ in Mourning This marble sculpture by Michelangelo Bonarotti, created in 1498 A.D., is a sculpture of the beautiful young Virgin looking at the dead Christ on both knees, and is currently in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
7. Nafertiti The most famous queen in Egyptian history, Naftiti, was worshipped and revered for her stunning beauty, and was discovered by archaeologists in 1912 in a colorful bust that became the first cover girl in history, and is now in the Egyptian Pavilion of the Neues Museum in Berlin.
8. Young man holding a goose This marble sculpture of a young man holding a goose, created around 200 B.C. by the ancient Greek sculptor Boedus, is a famous sculpture of a child's physical and verbal movements, full of life, from ancient times, and is currently housed in the National Museum of Ancient Sculpture in Munich, Germany.
9. Suicidal Gaul This bronze sculpture of unknown author, created in the 2nd century B.C., is also one of the sculptures in the Acropolis Square of the Kingdom of Bergama in Asia Minor.
10. Victory of Samothrace This marble statue, also known as the Victory of Samothrace and the Samothrace Nikai, was created in 190 B.C. and is a 328 cm high masterpiece from the Hellenistic period.
