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When critics complained that the Houston statue was 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall while the Austin statue was only 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm), she replied that these had been the actual heights of the men, and that anyone objecting should "take the issue up not with her but with God."
Spring Temple Buddha 153 m (502 ft) (incl. 25 m (82 ft) pedestal and 20 m (66 ft) throne) Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World ) 93 m (305 ft) (incl. 47 m (154 ft) pedestal) The Motherland Calls 87 m (285 ft) (incl. 2 m (6 ft 7 in) pedestal)
Stands upon a 2.7 m (8.8 ft) base Total monument height: 7.42 (24.3 ft) The Sun Singer: 4.62 15.16 Carl Milles 1929 Allerton Park, Monticello, IL 39°59'39.1"N 88°40'04.4'W Bronze The god Apollo with right foot on small tortoise. Milles sent Allerton the only full size replica of the 1926 Swedish commission in 1929.
Equestrian statue of Genghis Khan near Ulan Bator, Mongolia, completed in 2006 has a height of 40 metres (130 feet) on a 10 metres (33 feet) high base. Marjing Polo Statue in Marjing Polo Complex , Imphal East , Manipur - 122 feet (37 m), [ a ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] completed in 2022–23, is the world's tallest equestrian statue of a polo player [ 9 ...
The Alma Mater, a bronze statue by sculptor Lorado Taft, is a beloved symbol of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The 10,000-pound statue depicts a mother-figure wearing academic robes and flanked by two attendant figures representing "Learning" and "Labor", after the university's motto "Learning and Labor."
This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least 50 m (160 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.
9.3 x 8.9 x 10.2 m Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois . The sculpture, which depicts a spider , is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [ 1 ]
The lightning rods located in the statue's head and arms were also repaired, and new lighting fixtures were installed at the foot of the statue. [ 27 ] The restoration involved one hundred people and used more than 60,000 pieces of stone taken from the same quarry as the original statue. [ 26 ]