Wikipedia / List of statues
Wikipedia / List of statues
This is a list of notable statues worldwide, past and present.
Afghanistan
Buddhas of Bamiyan (destroyed in 2001)
Algeria
Constantine statue, Constantine
Oruç Reis statue, Aïn Témouchent
Shoshenq statue, Tizi Ouzou
Australia
Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles (8km) from Gundagai
Burke and Wills statue, Melbourne
South African War Memorial, Adelaide
Map the Miner, Kapunda, South Australia
Austria
Statues in facades of the Kunsthistorisches Museum - the Art History Museum and Naturhistorisches Museum - Museum of Natural History of Vienna, Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna.
Maria Theresa Memorial, Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna, between the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Naturhistorisches Museum. Sculpted by Kaspar von Zumbusch and unveiled in 1888.
Gerard van Swieten statue on the memorial to Maria Theresa.
Field marshal von Laudon, Field marshal von Daun, Field marshal von Traun, and Field marshal von Khevenhüller on the memorial to Maria Theresa.
Archduke Karl by Anton Dominik Fernkorn at the Heldenplatz, 1859. The equestrian sculpture is insofar a miracle which stands for Fernkorn's craftsmanship as a sculptor, as only the two back legs of the horse have a connection with the pedestal, it is only the second oldest in the world of this kind, after the Monument to Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, outdoing the achievement of Tacca's equestrian sculpture of Philip IV in Madrid.
Prince Eugen by Anton Dominik Fernkorn at the Heldenplatz, 1865.
Archduke Albrecht by Kaspar von Zumbusch in front of the Albertina, 1899.
General Radetzky by Kaspar von Zumbusch in the Ringstraße, 1891.
Statue of Nicholas, Count of Salm, plaza of the Rathaus, Vienna.
Statues of Schönbrunn Palace, Gloriette Garden, Vienna.
Belgium
Manneken Pis, in Brussels
Butte du Lion ("Hillock of the Lion", "Lion's Mound"), in Waterloo
Godfrey of Bouillon, Place Royale/Koningsplein, in Brussels
Baldwin I of Constantinople, in Mons
Leopold II, in Brussels
Albert I, Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, in Brussels
Charlemagne, in Liège
Bolivia
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Manitoba
Louis-Riel by Miguel Joyal
Newfoundland and Labrador
Ontario
Henry Moore sculptures in front of Toronto City Hall and Art Gallery of 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
Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
William Lyon Mackenzie, leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion
Sir Oliver Mowat, third Premier of Ontario
Sir James Pliny Whitney, sixth Premier of Ontario
Queen Elizabeth II Rose Gardens in honour of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and Golden Jubilee in 2002
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 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 by various sculptors
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
Saskatchewan
Croatia
Zagreb
Spomenik Moši Pijadi in Lower Town
Dora Krupić statue in Stone Gate
Spomenik don Frane Bulić in Lower Town
Spomenik fra Andrija Kačić Miošić in Lower Town
Spomenik Eugen Kumičić in Lower Town
Skulptura Mali dječak in Lower Town
Saint George Killing a Dragon by Anton Dominik Fernkorn in Lower Town
Spomenik Kralju Tomislavu by Robert Frangeš-Mihanović in Lower Town
Spomenik Petar Preradović in Lower Town
Fontana sa skulpturom Borba in Upper Town
Spomenik Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Lower Town
Spomenik Nikola Tesla in Lower Town
Spomenik Marija Jurić Zagorka in Upper Town
Spomenik Antun Gustav Matoš in Upper Town
Split
China
Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan
Grand Buddha at Ling Shan in Wuxi, Jiangsu China
Spring Temple Buddha in Henan
Terracotta Army in Xi'an
Young Mao Zedong statue in Changsha, Hunan
Chile
Moai in Easter Island
Colombia
Denmark
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
France
Vimy Memorial, honouring Canada's role there in the First World War
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in Paris
Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre
Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre
Statue of Liberty (Jardin du Luxembourg) by Frédéric Bartholdi on the Île aux Cygnes in Paris
Jeanne d'Arc in the Rue de Rivoli by Emmanuel Frémiet.
Jeanne d'Arc in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur by Hippolyte Lefèbvre, 1927.
King Louis IX in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur by Hippolyte Lefèbvre, 1927.
Ferdinand Foch near the Trocadéro.
Joseph Joffre in front of École Militaire.
Charlemagne (Charlemagne et ses Leudes) by Charles and Louis Rochet in front of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, 1882.
Albert I of Belgium near the Place de la Concorde.
King Henri IV by François-Frédéric Lemot on the Pont Neuf.*Étienne Marcel by Antonin Idrac near the Hôtel de Ville.
Marble equestrian statue of King Louis XIII at Place des Vosges. Begun in 1816 by Louis Dupaty, completed in 1821 by Jean-Pierre Cortot.
General Lafayette at Cours la Reine by Paul Wayland Bartlett.
King Louis XIV in front of Louvre Pyramid.
King Louis XIV by François Joseph Bosio at the Place des Victoires, 1822.
José de San Martín in the Parc Montsouris.
King Edward VII by Paul Landowski at Place Edouard VII.
Georgia
Kartlis Deda by Elguja Amashukeli
Germany
Bavaria, a statue as symbol of the South German kingdom of Bavaria in Munich
Victory Column, a statue of Victoria, the goddess of victory, in Berlin
Bismarck Monument, a statue of Otto von Bismarck, in Hamburg
Hermannsdenkmal, a statue of Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Niederwalddenkmal, a statue of Germania, as symbol of Germany, close to Rüdesheim
King Friedrich II by Christian Daniel Rauch in the Unter den Linden.
King Friedrich Wilhelm IV by Alexander Calandrelli in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie.
National Monument (Emperor Wilhelm I Monument) by Reinhold Begas in front of the Berlin City Palace, 1897, destroyed.
Emperor Wilhelm I by Albert Moritz Wolff at the Hohenzollernplatz in Rixdorf, 1902, destroyed in 1944.
Emperor Wilhelm I by Franz Dorrenbach in the Neuendorfer Straße in Spandau.
Emperor Friedrich III by Rudolf Maison, in front of Bode Museum, 1904, destroyed in 1950s.
Saint George defeats the Dragon
Statue of Sleeping Beauty in Wuppertal.
Greece
Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World sculpted by Pheidias. (Relocated to Constantinople 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)
Athena Promachos, was a colossal bronze statue of the Greek goddess Athena which stood between the Propylaea and the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, sculpted by Pheidias.
Athena Parthenos, was a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena which stood inside the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, sculpted by Pheidias.
Hong Kong
Statue of Queen Victoria at the entrance of Victoria Park
Statue of Sir Thomas Jackson at Statue Square
Statue of King George VI at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Statue of Bruce Lee the Hong Kong cities
Lost statues in Hong Kong include:
Statue of Edward VII – formerly at Statue Square
Statue of Prince Albert – formerly at Statue Square
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.
India
Marjing Polo Statue, Imphal East, Manipur (world's tallest equestrian statue of a polo player)
Statue of Lord Male Mahadeshwara.
Shri Bhaktha Anjaneyar, Vedasandur, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
Buddha Statue of Hyderabad, Husain Sagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
Abhaya Buddha Statue in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh
Dhyana Buddha Statue in Amaravathi
Lord Hanuman statue, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu.
Statue of Unity, (world's tallest)
Adiyogi Shiva statue, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Jakhoo Temple Hanuman Murti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Prabhu Sri Ramachandra bronze statue 77ft., Parthagali Jeevoththama Gokarna mutt, Canacona, South Goa.
Indonesia
Selamat Datang Monument, Jakarta
West Irian Liberation Monument, Jakarta
Italy
Colossus of Barletta, statue of a Byzantine emperor
Leonardo's horse, statue of a Horse in Milan based upon a design by Leonardo da Vinci from 500 years before.
Statue :File:ColaDiRienzo.jpg of Cola di Rienzi by Girolamo Masini, erected in 1877 near the Campidoglio in Rome
the Trevi Fountain statue in Rome
Japan
Ushiku Daibutsu as Buddhist temple Ushiku Japan
Sendai Daikannon in Sendai
Hokkaido Kannon in Hokkaido
Awaji Kannon in Awaji
Lebanon
Mexico
El Ángel de la Independencia, Mexico City
Julio Cesar Chavez Gonzalez, Culiacan
Guerrero Chimalli Mexican statue
Malaysia
Batu Caves in Murugan statue Thaipusam
Merlion in Malaysia
Myanmar
Laykyun Sekkya near Monywa
Mongolia
Equestrian statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia
Nepal
Nicaragua
Norway
Frogner Park including the Vigeland installation, Oslo
Philippines
Benavides Monument at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila
Filipina Comfort Women in Manila (dismantled, lost)
Oblation statues of the University of the Philippines
Puerto Rico
Sixto Escobar in Barceloneta, thought to be the first made for a professional boxer.
Russia
Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monumentss to Russian tsars
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow
Peter the Great Statue in Moscow
Senegal
African Renaissance Monument, 52 m high
Serbia
St. Sava by the Church of St. Sava
Emperor Dušan outside Palata pravde
Karađorđe Statue by the Church of St. Sava
Sri Lanka
Statue of Bhuddha in Kurunegala is high
Three Buddha statues at Buduruvagala in Wellawaya, Monaragala District
Singapore
The Merlion statues at the Singapore River mouth and on Sentosa
The Sir Stamford Raffles statue, based on the original by Thomas Woolner, located at the Victoria Concert Hall and at the Raffles Landing Site along Singapore River
South Africa
Sweden
Snowdrop (sculpture) at various locations in Sweden
Turkey
Aphrodite of Cnidus, famous Hellenistic statue
Monument of the Republic is located in Taksim Square, İstanbul
Statue of Humanity unfinished as of 2010
United Kingdom
United States
Alabama
Vulcan statue, Birmingham, Alabama World's tallest cast iron statue
Arkansas
Christ of the Ozarks statue, Eureka Springs
California
Florida
Illinois
The Bowman and The Spearman, Chicago
Chicago Picasso, Chicago
Cloud Gate, Chicago
Flamingo, Chicago
Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State, Chicago
Miró's Chicago, Chicago
Nuclear Energy, Chicago
Standing Lincoln, Chicago
Forever Marilyn, Chicago
‘’Robert Wadlow Statue‘’, Alton
Indiana
George Rogers Clark Memorial and statues of George Rogers Clark and Francis Vigo, Vincennes, Indiana
Kentucky
Statue of Alben W. Barkley, Frankfort
Statue of Roberto Clemente, Louisville
Massachusetts
Prince Harry the Navigator, Fall River
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Iron Man is tall including the figure, out of iron ore. Chisholm
Peanuts statues (Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Linus and Sally, Lucy and Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, and Marcy), St. Paul
Vision of Peace (Indian God of Peace), Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
Missouri
Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, several sculptors, including Robert Aitken and Edmond Amateis were involved.
Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, includes sculpture by Robert Aitken, James Earle Fraser, Karl Bitter, A.A. Weinman, Hermon Atkins MacNeil, Alexander Stirling Calder and Sherry Fry.
Montana
James J. Hill statue, Havre, Montana
Nevada
Burning Man effigy
New Jersey
Tapomurti Shri Nilkanth Varni Murti at the Swaminarayan Akshardham (North America)
New York
Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), New York City
North Dakota
Enchanted Highway, a collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures
Tommy Turtle in Bottineau, North Dakota, the world's largest depicted turtle
Ohio
Statues at Great American Ball Park by Tom Tsuchiya, Cincinnati
King of Kings (destroyed by lightning strike and fire in 2010), near Monroe, Ohio
Tyler Davidson Fountain, Cincinnati
Statues at Hope Memorial Bridge, Cleveland
Fountain of Eternal Life (also known as Peace Arising from the Flames of War), Cleveland
Oklahoma
Pioneer Woman, Ponca City
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Joe Paterno statue, Beaver Stadium, State College (2001–2011)
Rocky statue, Philadelphia
Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, Alexander Stirling Calder
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Statue of Strom Thurmond on the City Square, of his hometown, Edgefield, South Carolina
South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial – massive stone sculpture in the Black Hills, depicting the Lakota warrior
Dignity – 50 foot statue of a Lakota woman in a star quilt, on a bluff above Chamberlain
Mount Rushmore – faces of four US presidents carved into the granite face of the mountain
Texas
Big Tex - tall temporary statue erected annually for the Texas State Fair.
Dallas Zoo's giraffe statue
Statue of Don Juan de Oñate called The Equestrian in El Paso, Texas – at tall, it is purported by the sculptor to be the largest bronze equestrian statue in the world.
Statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas – at tall, it is the tallest statue of any American political figure.
Tex Randall – tall cowboy figure constructed in 1959 next to U.S. Route 60 in Canyon, Texas.
Utah
This is the Place Monument at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City
Virginia
Washington
Fremont Troll, Seattle
Hammering Man, Seattle
The Lone Sailor, Bremerton
Waiting for the Interurban, Seattle
The Burghers of Calais and The Thinker by Rodin, at Maryhill Museum of Art near Goldendale, Washington
Washington, D.C.
Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial
Statue of Thomas Jefferson, inside the Jefferson Memorial
Vietnam
Notre-Dame de Tà Pao (Our Lady Tapao statue), Bình Thuận
Venezuela
Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz in Venezuela
By distinction
Oldest
List of tallest statuesTallest
Statue of Unity (depicts Vallabhbhai Patel); near Kevadiya, Gujarat, India. completed 2018.
Lushan Dafo (depicts Vairocana Buddha); Lushan, Henan, China. Buddha statue standing on a lotus throne placed on a pedestal/building completed 2002.
Ushiku Daibutsu (depicts Amitabha Buddha); Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Buddha statue standing on a lotus throne placed on a pedestal/building completed 1995.
Guanyin statue of Hainan (depicts Avalokitesvara); Sanya, Hainan, China. completed in 2005.
Emperors Yan and Huang; Zhengzhou, China. completed 2007.
Sendai Daikannon (depicts Avalokitesvara); Sendai, Japan. .
Tallest and largest equestrian statue
Equestrian statue of Genghis Khan near Ulan Bator, Mongolia, completed in 2006 has a height of on a high base.
Marjing Polo Statue in Marjing Polo Complex, Imphal East, Manipur – , completed in 2022–2023, is the world's tallest equestrian statue of a polo player
Monument To Gral. José Gervasio Artigas In Minas, Uruguay – 18 meters tall, 9 meters long, weight 150,000 kilos 1974
Largest stone sculptures
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, US, is the largest cast iron statue.
Other organizational lists
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