Allegorical Sculpture - Notable Allegorical Sculptures

Notable Allegorical Sculptures

• The Statue of Liberty, 1886.
• The figures of the four continents and four arts and sciences surrounding the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, 1872.
• Statue of Justice on the Old Bailey in London
• The Four cardinal virtues, by Maximilian Colt, on the monument to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury in Bishop's Hatfield Church in the English county of Hertfordshire, before 1641.
• In Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, New York had an extensive scheme of allegorical sculpture programmed by Karl Bitter.
• The allegorical group on top of Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, created by the French sculptor Jules-Felix Coutan in 1912, represents the Roman gods, Hercules (physical energy), Mercury (commerce) and Minerva (wisdom), and collectively represents 'Transportation'.
• Figures of War and Peace located at the Millennium Monument at Heroes' Square Hősök tere, Budapest, Hungary
• In the The Four Captives, also known as The Four Defeated Nations, four larger-than-life bronze figures, symbolize the four nations defeated at the time of the Treaty of Nijmegen. Each represents one of the ages of man and a different attitude to captivity. The countries represented are Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Brandenburg and Holland.