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The Moss Lady.
Victoria, British Columbia

Moss Lady

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Cutting Edge.
Sheffield, England

Water Sculptures of Sheaf Square

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.
Inside the museum.
Wilmington, Delaware

Delaware Art Museum

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.
Raniji Ki baori stepwell in Bundi.
Bundi, India

Raniji ki Baori

A small town in Rajasthan has been dubbed the "City of Stepwells," and Raniji ki Baori is the queen.
Crying Giant.
Wilmington, Delaware

The Crying Giant

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.
Bart Simpson, banana-ized.
sculptures

The Artist Making Bunches of Banana Art

Keisuke Yamada carves faces, animals, and more into fruit.
Paula Mejia March 12, 2018
Niigata, Japan

Wara Art

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.
Jeremy Bentham's "auto-icon," which includes this wax head, is on its way to New York.
wax anatomy

How a Dead Philosopher Makes a Transatlantic Trip

Jeremy Bentham died 186 years ago. Now conservators are transporting his "auto-icon" from London to New York for the first time.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 2, 2018
A composite showing how Picasso's <em>Bust of a Woman</em> would have looked. Not pictured: the rest of the USF campus.
architecture

Found: Details of Picasso's Plan for His Most Massive Work of Art

"Bust of a Woman" would have soared 100 feet over Tampa.
Vittoria Traverso March 1, 2018
Monument to Antonio Canova.
Venice, Italy

Tomb of Antonio Canova

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Danny Osborne casts a sculpture.
volcanoes

Meet a Man Who Makes Sculptures From Lava

Danny Osborne looks to active volcanoes for his art supplies.
Eric Grundhauser February 27, 2018
Rose Centre.
Brinchang, Malaysia

Rose Centre

A lush terraced garden full of thousands of colorful roses and mystical art.
Boomer.
New Hope, Pennsylvania

Boomer

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Florence, Italy

Bronze Replica of Michelangelo’s David

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.
Larger than life numbers outside the math and engineering buildings at The Ohio State University.
Columbus, Ohio

Garden of Constants

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.
Côn Đảo Prisoner Starvation
Côn Đảo, Vietnam

Côn Đảo Prison

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.
Selma Burke won a competition to create a relief sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943.
sculptures

Who Really Designed the American Dime?

The controversy that has long roiled the coin world.
Christina Ayele Djossa January 17, 2018
Allegorical figures for the Demidoff monument, Gipsoteca Bartolini.
Florence, Italy

Gipsoteca Bartolini

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.