The best-known works of sculpture of the Romanesque period are the figures of the gate of the Ják church. One of the relics preserved until this day of the wooden sculptures characteristic of Hungary in the 14th and 15th centuries is the Saint Nicholas Altar of Jánosrét. The central figure of the altarpiece is the statue of Saint Nicholas, whereas the internal side of the wings present the painted scenes of the miracles by Saint Nicholas. Hungarian Gothic sculpture is basically represented by the work of Márton and György Kolozsvári, the equestrian statue of Saint George defeating the dragon.

The best-known work of art of Renaissance sculpture is the relief of King Matthias and Queen Beatrix by an Italian master.

The most characteristic artists of the Baroque era were Georg Raphael Donner and Johann Anton Krauss. Both of them made church interiors. It is from this period that the Holy Trinity Monument of the Buda Castle has remained, as well as the main altar of the cathedral in Székesfehérvár and countless Saint John of Nepomuk and Rókus statues. Magnificent church interiors were also made during the beginning of the 19th century; examples for this are the sculpture ornaments of the Eger Basilica, works of Marco Casagrande of Venice.

A decade earlier István Ferenczy laid the foundation for Hungarian sculpture with his statue entitled Shepherdess. The genre statue of Miklós Izsó entitled Shepherd in Sorrow represents national romanticism. During the last decades of the 19th century, monumental sculptures gained predominance: the representatives of this genre were Adolf Huszár, Alajos Stróbl, Barnabás Holló, György Zala and János Fadrusz.

The last major sculptural-architectural endeavour of the century dedicated to the millennium was Heroes Square based on the plans of György Zala and Albert Schickedanz.

Sculpture in the 20th century adopted new plastic means of expression. The David statue of Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl, the Standing Girl of Béni Ferenczy and the Seedsman of Ferenc Medgyessy are displayed in the Hungarian National Gallery and these adequately show the changes. Fülöp Ö. Beck minted coins and prepared relieves at the beginning of the century.

Vilmos Fémes-Beck and Márk Vedres displaying their works together with the artistic group Nyolcak and János Mattis-Teutsch related to the genre activism were looking towards the avant-garde. Other significant artists were László Mészáros (Prodigal Son, 1930), and the creator of agitative plastic works, György Goldmann. The artists of the most significant effect were Pál Pátzay, founder of the Gresham circle and Béni Ferenczy, who reinterpreted classic patterns.

Significant contemporary artists are László Marton, Miklós Melocco, József Somogyi, Tamás Vígh and Miklós Borsos.