List of statues

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

Contents 1 Belgium 2 Brazil 3 Canada 3.1 Alberta 3.2 Manitoba 3.3 Newfoundland 3.4 Ontario 4 Egypt 5 France 6 Greece 7 North Korea 8 Peru 9 Russia 10 Sweden 11 United Kingdom 11.1 England 12 United States, including territories 12.1 Madonna of the Trail 12.2 Alabama 12.3 Arkansas 12.4 Massachusetts 12.5 Michigan 12.6 New York 12.7 Nevada 12.8 Oklahoma 12.9 Pennsylvania 12.10 Puerto Rico 12.11 Texas 12.12 Washington, DC 13 By distinction 13.1 Oldest 13.2 Tallest 13.3 Highest placement 13.4 Largest stone sculpture by volume 13.5 Largest metal sculpture 13.6 Largest stone sculpture

Belgium

• Manneken Pis in Brussels

Brazil

• Christ the Redeemer

Canada

Alberta

• Wayne Gretzky statue outside Rexall Place (home of the Edmonton Oilers)

Manitoba

• Timothy Eaton statue in the MTS Centre

Newfoundland

• John Cabot
• The Dead Christ
• St. Patrick
• The Fighting Newfoundlander
• Sir Wilfred Grenfell
• St. John the Baptist
• Peter Pan
• The Caribou
• Gaspar Corte-Real
• Shanawdithit
• The Veiled Virgin

Ontario

• Parliament Hill Statues
  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • The Famous Five
  • Sir John A. Macdonald
  • Queen Elizabeth II
  • Robert Baldwin
  • Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee
  • Victoria Tower Bell
  • George Brown
  • Alexander Mackenzie
  • Sir George-Étienne Cartier
  • John George Diefenbaker
  • Queen Victoria
  • Lester Bowles Pearson
  • Sir Robert Laird Borden
• Supreme Court of Canada statues
  • Louis St. Laurent
  • Statue symbolizing truth, to the west of the Supreme Court
  • Statue symbolizing justice, to the east of the Supreme Court
• The Famous Five
• Alexander Wood
• Timothy Eaton statue

Egypt

• Great Sphinx of Giza

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 Paris
• Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre
• Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre

Greece

• Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by fire in 462 AD 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 AD)

North Korea

• has many very large statues of Kim Il Sung

Peru

• Francisco Pizarro statue, Lima (removed)

Russia

• Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monuments to Russian tsars
• Alexander Pushkin's statue on Pushkin Square in Moscow
• Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow
• Zurab Tsereteli's Peter the Great in downtown Moscow
• Labourer and kolkhoz woman in Moscow
• 86-meter-tall Rodina Mat on the Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd
• List of statues of Lenin

Sweden

• The Branting Monument in Stockholm.
• Statue of August Strindberg in Stockholm.
• Statue of August Palm in Stockholm.
• Statue of Fabian Månsson in Hasslö.

United Kingdom

England

• Nelson's Column.
• The Angel of the North.

United States, including territories

Madonna of the Trail

Alabama

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

Arkansas

• Christ of the Ozarks statue, Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Massachusetts

• Robert Treat Paine, Taunton
• The Whaler, New Bedford

Michigan

• Joe Louis statue

New York

• Statue of Liberty, New York
• John Ericsson statue in Battery Park

Nevada

• Joe Louis statue, inside the Caesars Palace Hotel, Las Vegas

Oklahoma

• Golden Driller statue, Tulsa

Pennsylvania

• Rocky statue, Philadelphia

Puerto Rico

• Estatua del Jibarito, Cayey
• Sixto Escobar statue, Isabela

Texas

• Statue of Sam Houston, Huntsville

Washington, DC

• USMC War Memorial, Washington, D.C.
• Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial

By distinction

Oldest

• Venus of Willendorf

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

Highest placement

• Christ the Redeemer

Largest stone sculpture by volume

• Great Sphinx of Giza

Largest metal sculpture

• At 54m, the Angel of the North has the largest single dimension. In term of height only, the Statue of Liberty is the largest.

Largest stone sculpture

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