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 Bolivia 4 Brazil 5 Canada 5.1 Manitoba 5.2 Newfoundland 5.3 Ontario 5.4 Saskatchewan 6 Ecuador 7 Egypt 8 France 9 Germany 10 Greece 11 Hong Kong 12 Hungary 13 Italy 14 India 15 Lebanon 16 Mexico 17 Norway 18 Russia 19 Sri Lanka 20 Singapore 21 Sweden 22 United Kingdom 23 United States, including territories 23.1 Alabama 23.2 Arkansas 23.3 Illinois 23.4 Maryland 23.5 Michigan 23.6 New York 23.7 North Dakota 23.8 Oregon 23.9 Pennsylvania 23.10 South Dakota 23.11 Texas 23.12 Utah 23.13 Virginia 23.14 Washington, DC 24 By distinction 24.1 Oldest 24.2 Tallest 24.3 Tallest And Largest Equestrian Statue 24.4 Largest stone sculptures 24.5 Metal sculptures 25 References 26 See also

[edit] Australia

• Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles from Gundagai

[edit] Belgium

• Manneken Pis in Brussels
• Jeanneke Pis in Brussels, the female equivalent of Manneken Pis
• Butte du Lion ("Hillock of the Lion", "Lion's Mound") in Waterloo

[edit] Bolivia

• Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba

[edit] Brazil

• Christ the Redeemer

[edit] Canada

[edit] Manitoba

• Louis-Riel sculpture by Miguel Joyal

[edit] Newfoundland

• The Dead Christ
• The Veiled Virgin

[edit] Ontario

• Timothy Eaton statue - Royal Ontario Museum
• Henry Moore sculputures in front of Toronto City Hall and Art Gallery on Ontario
• statue of Winston Churchill near Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
• statue of Sir Adam Beck on University Avenue in Toronto

• Queen's Park, Toronto
  • George Brown, one of the Fathers of Confederation
  • King George V moved from Delhi, India in 1969
  • Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
  • John Sandfield Macdonald, first Premier of Ontario
  • William Lyon Mackenzie, leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion
  • Sir Oliver Mowat, third Premier of Ontario
  • John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
  • Queen Victoria
  • Sir James Pliny Whitney, sixth Premier of Ontario
  • Ontario Veterans Memorial
  • Queen Elizabeth II Rose Gardens in honour of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and Golden Jubilee in 2002

• Parliament Hill, Ottawa
  • Queen Victoria - located north of the West Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert (1900)
  • Alexander Mackenzie - located west of the Centre Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert (1901)
  • Henry Albert Harper / Galahad - located outside the Queen's Gates, facing Centre Block; sculpted by Ernest Wise Keyser (1905)
  • George Brown - located west of the Centre Block; sculpted by George William Hill (1913)
  • Robert Baldwin and Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - located east of the Centre Block; sculpted by Walter Seymour Allward (1914)
  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier - located south of the East Block; sculpted by Joseph-Émile Brunet (1922)
  • Sir Robert Laird Borden - located west of the West Block; sculpted by Frances Loring (1957)
  • Queen Elizabeth II - located east of the Centre Block; sculpted by Jack Harman (1977)
  • John George Diefenbaker - located north of the West Block; sculpted by Leo Mol (1985)
  • Lester Bowles Pearson - located north of the West Block; sculpted by Danek Mozdzenski (1989)
  • Sir George-Étienne Cartier - located west of the Centre Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert
  • The Famous Five - depicts the women's suffrage movement (Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards); sculpted by Barbara Paterson; the monument is featured on the reverse of the current $50 banknote
  • Sir John A. Macdonald - located east of the Centre Block; sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King - located north of the East Block; sculpted by Raoul Hunter
  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee - located north of the Centre Block; sculpted by George William Hill

[edit] Saskatchewan

• Statue of Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese
• Sir John A. Macdonald statue

[edit] Ecuador

• El Panecillo

[edit] Egypt

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

[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

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[edit] Germany

• Hermannsdenkmal, a statue of Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

[edit] Greece

• Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (Relocated to Constantinopel in 393, later destroyed by fire in 462)
• 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)
• Statue of Athena at Athens, was as high as a 4-story building at 40 feet.
• Poseidon of Cape Artemision
• Antikythera Ephebe
• Marathon Boy
• Charioteer of Delphi
• Hermes by Praxiteles

[edit] Hong Kong

• Statue of Queen Victoria at the entrance of Victoria Park [1]
• Statue of Sir Thomas Jackson at Statue Square
• Statue of King George VI at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
• Bahunia statue next to Hong Kong Convention Centre
• two bronze lions at the front entrance of the HSBC HQ
• "Justice" or Greek goddess Themis on Legco Building

Lost statues in Hong Kong include:

• Statue of Edward VII - formerly at Statue Square
• Statue of Prince Albert - formerly at Statue Square

[edit] Hungary

• Heroes' Square, Heroes' Square (Hősök tere in Hungarian) is one of the major squares of Budapest, Hungary.
• Anonymus, The statue of Anonymus, created by Miklós Ligeti in 1903, sits in front of Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest's Városliget (City Park)
• Statue Park, Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII. district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues.
• Liberty Statue, The Szabadság Szobor or Liberty Statue (sometimes Freedom Statue) in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from Nazi forces during World War II.

[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- statue of a Horse in Milan based upon a design by Leonardo Da Vinci from 500 years before.

[edit] India

• Thiruvalluvar Statue (depicts Tiruvalluvar); Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Taj Mahal, Agra
• Bibi Ka Maqbara, Aurangabad
• Qutub Minar, New Delhi
• Bahubali, Shravanabelagola
• Christ the Redeemer, On Bell Tower Ollur
• Shiva, Murudeshwara

[edit] Lebanon

• Harissa, Lebanon

[edit] Mexico

• El Angel de la Independencia, Mexico City

[edit] Norway

• Vigelandsparken, Oslo

[edit] Russia

• Mother Motherland Is Calling
• Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monuments to Russian tsars
• Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow
• Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow
• List of statues of Lenin
• List of Mother Motherland statues

[edit] Sri Lanka

• Statue of Bhuddha in Kurunegala‎ - 88 foot high.

[edit] Singapore

• The Merlion statues at the Singapore River mouth and on Sentosa

[edit] Sweden

• The Branting Monument in Stockholm.

[edit] United Kingdom

England

• Angel of the North
• B of the Bang
• Duke of York Column
• King George VI memorial
• Maiwand Lion
• Nelson's Column
• Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham
• Wellington Statue

[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

• Chicago Picasso, Chicago
• Cloud Gate, Chicago
• Flamingo, Chicago
• Nuclear Energy, Chicago
• Superman Statue, Metropolis

[edit] Maryland

• Washington Monument, Baltimore

[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] North Dakota

• Enchanted Highway, a collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures
• Tommy Turtle in Bottineau, North Dakota, the world's largest turtle

[edit] Oregon

• Portlandia, Portland, Oregon

[edit] Pennsylvania

• Rocky statue, Philadelphia

[edit] South Dakota

• Mount Rushmore
• Statue of David replica at Fawik Park in Sioux Falls

[edit] Texas

• Statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas - At 66 feet tall, it is the tallest statue of any American political figure.

[edit] Utah

This Is The Place Monument at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City

[edit] Virginia

• USMC War Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia

[edit] Washington, DC

• Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial
• Statue of Thomas Jefferson, inside the Jefferson Memorial

[edit] By distinction

[edit] Oldest

• Venus of Willendorf

[edit] Tallest

• Lushan Dafo (depicts Vairocana Buddha); Lushan, Henan, China. 108 m (354 ft) Buddha statue standing on a 20 m (66 ft) lotus throne placed on a 25 m (82 ft) pedestal/building. Completed 2002.
• Ushiku Daibutsu (depicts Amitabha Buddha); Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. 100 m (328 ft) Buddha statue standing on a 10 m (33 ft) lotus throne placed on a 10 m (33 ft) pedestal/building. Completed 1995.^[1]
• Guanyin statue of Hainan (depicts Avalokitesvara); Sanya, Hainan, China. 108 m (354 ft). Completed in 2005.
• Emperors Yan and Huang; Zhengzhou, China. 106 m (348 ft). Completed 2007.^[2]
• Daikannon of Sendai (depicts Avalokitesvara); Sendai, Japan. 100 m (328 ft).

[edit] Tallest And Largest Equestrian Statue

• Monument To Gral. Jose Gervasio Artigas In Minas, Uruguay - 18 Meters Tall, 9 Meters Long, Weight 150,000 Kilos 1974

[edit] Largest stone sculptures

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

[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.
• The Enchanted Highway is a collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures.
• Vulcan statue, (17m) in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, is the largest cast iron statue.

[edit] References

1. ^ | Usiku Daibutsu || Usiku Jyoen |
2. ^ 106-Meter High Statue of Emperors Yan and Huang Built_life_English_SINA.com

[edit] See also

• List of statues by height