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  2. List of tallest statues - Wikipedia

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    The definition of statue for this list is a free-standing sculpture (as opposed to a relief), representing one or more people or animals (real or mythical), in their entirety or partially (such as a bust). Heights stated are those of the statue itself and (separately) the total height of the monument that includes structures the statue is ...

  3. List of the tallest statues in the United States - Wikipedia

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    2014. Gulfstream Park Racetrack and Casino, Hallandale Beach, Florida. 25°58′56″N 80°08′26″W  /  25.982155°N 80.140495°W  / 25.982155; -80.140495  (Pegasus and the Dragon (Hallandale Beach, Florida)) bronze and steel. Pegasus is 33.4 m (110 ft) in height. The dragon is 15.2 m (50 ft) in height. Statue of Union.

  4. Statue - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Unity (2018), the world's tallest statue, in Gujarat, India. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus by Praxiteles, a 4th century BC statue now housed at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable ...

  5. Renaissance sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance sculpture is understood as a process of recovery of the sculpture of classical antiquity. Sculptors found in the artistic remains and in the discoveries of sites of that bygone era the perfect inspiration for their works. They were also inspired by nature. In this context we must take into account the exception of the Flemish ...

  6. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323 BC ...

  7. Sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Open air Buddhist rock reliefs at the Longmen Grottoes, China. A distinction exists between sculpture "in the round", free-standing sculpture such as statues, not attached except possibly at the base to any other surface, and the various types of relief, which are at least partly attached to a background surface.

  8. Classical sculpture - Wikipedia

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    These free-standing sculptures were typically marble, but the form is also rendered in limestone, wood, bronze, ivory and terracotta. They are typically life-sized, though early colossal examples are up to 3 meters tall. Archaic Greek sculptors seem to have been influenced stylistically by the Egyptians, although divergences appeared early on.

  9. David (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1] [2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo.With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.

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