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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.
Auguste Rodin. François Auguste René Rodin (/ roʊˈdæn /; [1] French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor [2] generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. [3] He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability ...
David. (Michelangelo) 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.
Olympian Zeus in the sculptured antique art of Quatremère de Quincy (1815). The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m (41 ft) tall, [1] made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there. Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek ...
The sculpture is in the Art Deco style of Rockefeller Center. The figure of Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet (14 m) tall. [14] [15] It weighs 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg), [16] and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center. [17] Atlas is depicted carrying the celestial vault on his shoulders.
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 ...
Statue. 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 ...
In 1995, Seokguram was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List together with the Bulguksa Temple. [1] It exemplifies some of the best Buddhist sculptures in the world. [2] [citation needed] The Seokguram Grotto is said to have been built by Kim Daeseong and originally called Seokbulsa (석불사; lit. Stone Buddha Temple).