18 Famous Italian Statues

Italy's artistic heritage includes architecture, painting, and sculpture, with statues adorning cities and towns in diverse styles, materials, and eras.

Let’s discover a non-exhaustive list of Italian statues that surely deserve a second look!

The most famous Italian statues you cannot miss.

Capitoline She-Wolf

A she-wolf found and raised them, so they survived and grew up. Once adults, Romolo founded the city of Rome after having killed his brother.

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David

It was made of white Carrara marble between 1501 and 1504. It’s really huge: 5m high and 5 tons of weight!

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Pietà

It represents the Virgin Mary holding Christ’s body after his death, which was a common subject in funerary art during the Renaissance.

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La Madonnina

This statue of the Virgin Mary has always been protecting the city from above and no new building nor skyscraper can be higher than that (108m)!

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Moses

It was made between 1513 and 1515 and it’s considered one of the main masterpieces of Italian art.

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