Ancient Egypt

Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti, 1345 BC, Egyptian Museum of Berlin Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, 2490 – 2472 BC. Tutankhamun's mask, c. late Eighteenth dynasty, Egyptian Museum



Ancient Greek

Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, possibly an original by Praxiteles, 4th century, Archaeological Museum of Olympia The Winged Victory of Samothrace (Hellenistic), The Louvre, Paris Laocoön and His Sons (Late Hellenistic), Vatican Museum



Roman

Allegorical scene from the Augustan Ara Pacis, 13 BCE, a highpoint of the state Greco-Roman style. Bust of Emperor Claudius, c. 50 CE, (reworked from a bust of emperor Caligula), Vatican Museums Augustus of Prima Porta, statue of the emperor Augustus, 1st century CE. Vatican Museums



Gotic

South portal of Chartres Cathedral (c. 1215–20)
1145)		 West portal at Rheims Cathedral, Annunciation group Nicola Pisano, Nativity and Adoration of the Magi from the pulpit of the Pisa Baptistery



Renaissance

Michelangelo, Pietà, 1499. Michelangelo, David, c. 1504, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence Luca della Robbia, detail of Cantoria, c. 1438, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence



Neo-Classical

Antonio Canova: Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, 1787 Bertel Thorvaldsen: Jason and the Golden Fleece (1803) John Flaxman, Memorial in the church at Badger, Shropshire, c. 1780s



Asia

One of the first representations of the Buddha, 1st–2nd century CE, Gandhara, northern Pakistan Guanyin Bodhisattva in Blanc de Chine (Dehua porcelain), by He Chaozong, Ming dynasty, early 17th century, China Hindu Gupta terracotta relief, 5th century CE, of Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi, India
Main complex at Angkor Wat,  the 9th to 15th centuries, Cambodia Relief sculpture from Borobudurtemple, Indonesia, c. 760–830 Apsara and Gandarva pedestal, Trà Kiệu, Cham art, Vietnam, c.7th–8th century



Modern sculpture

Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1902, Musée Rodin, Paris Auguste Rodin, Christ and Mary Magdalene Auguste Rodin, The Kiss
Henry Moore – Recumbent Figure Constantin Brâncuși, The Kiss Barbara Hepworth – Nesting Stones