Carol

Lacoon, Vatican <BR>Pieta--Michaelangelo <BR>Mary Magdalene--Donatello <BR>Daphne and Apollo-Bernini <BR>The Burghers of Calais-Rodin <BR>St. Theresa in Ecstasy--Bernini <BR>David--Michaelangelo <BR> <BR>This is too hard!! my list would have every piece of sculpture by Donatello or Bernini; all the incredible carvings of the nameless medieval artists whose decorates the Romanesque churches of Europe...anyway, this is a terrific thread and brings back marvelous memories. Thanks.

rob

For bernini fans I would definitely add The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni in San Francesco a Ripa in Trastevere. Similar to Saint Teresa but maybe more intimate, and you can get really close to it. I would also add Bernini's David - so tense - right before rather than right after hurling the stone with the slingshot. Then there's Bartolomeo Colleoni outside Zanipolo in Venice - very powerful equestrian statue. Oh - Donatello's scary wood Mary Magdalen in the Museo dell'Opera in Florence.

KT

Wow, it's good to see the Bernini fans coming out from the woodwork. His Santa Teresa is the one thing that I've visited every time I've been in Rome -- it's not just the statue, it's the marvelously theatrical setting that Bernini created. And speaking of the Colleoni, on the equestrian hit parade there's also Donatello's Gattemelata in Padova and the grandaddy of them all, Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill in Rome (but it's a replica now, isn't it, with the original indoors for preservation's sake?). And if, as Carol suggested, you go beyond free-standing statutes per se, there's just too too much: Claus Sluter's Well of Moses and Tomb of Philip the Bold in Dijon, Jacopo della Quercia's Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto in Lucca, the Bamberg Rider in Germany, the portals at Chartres and Autun. . . I could never pick just five. Guilty admission: I don't like the Michelangelos in the Medici Chapel. So sue me.

Joanna

Whoa, this is a difficult one. <BR> <BR>1. Pieta, Michelangelo. <BR>2. L'Implorante, Claudel. <BR>3. Bronzi de Riaci in Reggio. <BR>4. Euthydikos kore, Athens. <BR>5. Kings from Notre Dame now housed in <BR> Musee de Cluny.