List of statues

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This is a list of the most famous statues worldwide, past and present.

Contents 1 Australia 2 Belgium 3 Brazil 4 Canada 4.1 Newfoundland 4.2 Ontario 4.3 Saskatchewan 5 Arab States 5.1 Egypt 5.2 Lebanon 6 France 7 Greece 8 Italy 9 Mexico 10 Russia 11 Sweden 12 United Kingdom 12.1 England 13 United States, including territories 13.1 Alabama 13.2 Arkansas 13.3 Illinois 13.4 Michigan 13.5 New York 13.6 Oregon 13.7 Pennsylvania 13.8 South Dakota 13.9 Virginia 13.10 Washington, DC 14 By distinction 14.1 Oldest 14.2 Tallest 14.3 Highest placement 14.4 Largest stone sculpture by volume 14.5 Metal sculptures 14.6 Largest stone sculpture

[edit] Australia

• Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles from Gundagai

[edit] Belgium

• Manneken Pis in Brussels

[edit] Brazil

• Christ the Redeemer

[edit] Canada

[edit] Newfoundland

• The Dead Christ
• The Veiled Virgin

[edit] Ontario

• Timothy Eaton statue

[edit] Saskatchewan

• Statue of Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese
• Statue of Sir John A. MacDonald (Regina)

[edit] Arab States

[edit] Egypt

• Great Sphinx of Giza
• Nahdit Misr
• Abu Simbel
• Ramesses II
• Mostapha Kamel
• Tal'att Harb
• Sa'd Zaghlol
• Ahmad Maher
• Ibraheem Pasha

[edit] Lebanon

• Harissa, Lebanon

[edit] France

• The Vimy Memorial, honouring Canada's role there in the First World War
• The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin in Calais
• The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in Paris
• The Lion of Belfort by Frédéric Bartholdi in Belfort
• Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre
• Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre

[edit] Greece

• Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by fire in 462 during the fall of Constantinople)
• Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by earthquake in 224 BC, and the remains sold for scrap in 656)

[edit] Italy

• Colossus of Barletta, a statue of a Byzantine emperor
• Colossus of Nero
• Apollo Belvedere
• Laocoön and his Sons
• David (Donatello)
• Bacchus (Michelangelo)
• David (Michelangelo)
• The Deposition (Michelangelo)
• Cristo della Minerva
• Moses (Michelangelo)
• Pietà (Michelangelo)
• Rondanini Pietà
• David (Bernini)
• Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
• Ecstasy of St Theresa
• The Horse-statute of Horse in Milan based upon design by Leonardo Da Vinci from 500 years before.

[edit] Mexico

• El Angel de la Independencia, Mexico City

[edit] Russia

• Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monuments to Russian tsars
• Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow
• Labourer and kolkhoz woman in Moscow
• List of statues of Lenin

[edit] Sweden

• The Branting Monument in Stockholm.

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] England

• Nelson's Column.
• Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham
• The Angel of the North.

King George VI memorial.

Duke of York Column

[edit] United States, including territories

• Madonna of the Trail

[edit] Alabama

• Vulcan statue, Birmingham, Alabama World's tallest cast iron statue

[edit] Arkansas

• Christ of the Ozarks statue, Eureka Springs

[edit] Illinois

• The Bowman and the Spearman, Chicago

[edit] Michigan

• Spirit of Detroit, Detroit

[edit] New York

• Statue of Liberty, New York

For a full list for New York City, see Statues and Sculptures in New York City

[edit] Oregon

• Portlandia, Portland, Oregon

[edit] Pennsylvania

• Rocky statue, Philadelphia

[edit] South Dakota

• Mount Rushmore

[edit] Virginia

• USMC War Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia

[edit] Washington, DC

• Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial

[edit] By distinction

[edit] Oldest

• Venus of Willendorf

[edit] Tallest

• Ushiku Daibutsu Amida Buddha in Japan - 120 meters, 1995
• Zurab Tsereteli's Columbus in Puerto Rico - 100 meters, 1994
• Zurab Tsereteli's Peter the Great in downtown Moscow - 96 meters, 1996
• Evgeny Vuchetich's Mother Motherland on Mamayev Kurgan - 82 meters, 1967

[edit] Highest placement

• Christ the Redeemer

[edit] Largest stone sculpture by volume

• Great Sphinx of Giza

[edit] Metal sculptures

• At 54 m wide, the Angel of the North has the largest single dimension.
• The Statue of Liberty is the tallest at 46 m, atop a 47 m pedestal.

[edit] Largest stone sculpture

• God of Longevity in the Meng Shan mountains near Pingyl, Shandong, China