examples:
Praxiteles
ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC)
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)
Alexander Calder
United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Sir Jacob Epstein
British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)
Daniel Chester French
United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966)
Gaston Lachaise
United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935)
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
Maya Lin
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
Jacques Lipchitz
United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973)
Lysippus
Greek sculptor (4th century BC)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)
Louise Nevelson
United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988)
Claes Thure Oldenburg
United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)
Pheidias
ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC)
Pablo Picasso
prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973)