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    The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 feet), located near Kevadia in the state of Gujarat, India. It depicts...
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    Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul...
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    The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in...
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    Moai (redirect from Easter Island statue)
    Moai or moʻai (/ˈmoʊ.aɪ/ MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui...
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    right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy. Rodin conceived the figure...
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    The Merneptah Stele, also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by Merneptah, a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned...
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    Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue, part of the Genghis Khan Statue Complex, is a 40-metre (130 ft) tall, stainless steel statue of Genghis Khan on horseback...
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    Great Sphinx of Giza (category Colossal statues in Egypt)
    The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. Facing directly...
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    Colossus of Rhodes (category Ancient Greek and Roman colossal statues)
    Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek...
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    Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (Italian: statua equestre di Marco Aurelio; Latin: Equus Marci Aurelii) is an ancient Roman equestrian statue on the...
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    forms of naturalism with the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty. The statue was originally commissioned by a French cardinal, Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas...
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    Figurine (redirect from Small statue)
    tabletop role playing games. The main difference between a figurine and a statue is size. There is no agreed limit, but typically objects are called "figurines"...
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    David (Michelangelo) (category Colossal statues)
    height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent...
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    تندیس‌های بودا در بامیان) were two possibly 6th-century monumental Buddhist statues in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan. Located 130 kilometres (81 mi) to...
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    Winged Victory of Samothrace (category Statues in France)
    including the socle; the statue alone measures 2.75 meters (9 ft). The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original...
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    marble's weight to her massive, flowing skirt. Unlike bronze sculpture, this statue is not hollow; her drapery is one solid block of marble. Sculptors usually...
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    Venus de Milo (category Statues in France)
    Venus. Made of Parian marble, the statue is larger than life size, standing over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. The statue is missing both arms. The original...
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    D.C., the statue was unveiled in 1922. The work follows in the Beaux Arts and American Renaissance style traditions. The 170-ton statue is composed...
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    A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as...
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    The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha...
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    building monumental statues in human form during his reign, such as the Twelve Metal Colossi, which were a series of contemporaneous statues that are now lost...
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    tallest statues List of national memorials of the United States List of statues of George Washington List of statues of Thomas Jefferson List of statues of...
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    Veiled Christ (category Statues of Jesus)
    then young Giuseppe Sanmartino, who was charged with producing "a marble statue sculpted with the greatest realism, representing Our Lord Jesus Christ in...
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    Abu Simbel (category Colossal statues in Egypt)
    twenty-two baboons worshipping the rising sun with upraised arms and a stele recording the marriage of Ramesses to a daughter of king Ḫattušili III,...
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    and therefore expense, and occupying far less space than a full-length statue, the bust has been since ancient times a popular style of life-size portrait...
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    The pidas are divided into terraces. On each of these terraces stand statues of musician figures. The main temple and the jagamohana porch consist of...
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    mentioned in the somewhat controversial Ram Khamhaeng stele. In lines 23–27 of the first stone slab of the stele, "a gold Buddha image" is mentioned as being located...
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    The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian...
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    www.academia.edu. Retrieved 14 March 2023. "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi - Le statue stele in Italia e in Europa". Archived from the original on...
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    (3 ft). Several of the figures were also cast as independent free-standing statues. The sculpture was commissioned by the Directorate of Fine Arts in 1880...
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