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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The Thinker (redirect from The Thinker statue)
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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Buddhas of Bamiyan (redirect from Buddah statue in Bamiyan)
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 sculpture (redirect from Marble statue)
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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Terracotta Army (redirect from Statues of Chinese soldiers)
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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