Gian Lorenzo Bernini

I've always had a thing for statues and Bernini contributed to this penchant of mine. Bernini is arguably the best sculptor, again in my opinion. And I dedicate a stanza of this poem, Sculptor by Sylvia Plath to his magnificence.

" To his house the bodiless
  Come to barter endlessly
  Vision, wisdom for bodies
  Palpable as his, and weighty. "

Selected favourites:

Trevi Fountain

Apollo and Daphne

Ecstasy of St. Teresa

The Rape of Proserpina

And a close detail of The Rape of Proserpina which shows realistic dents in the flesh