Statues
- Any exceptionally large statue such as:
- Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue of Helios, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Colossus of Nero, a bronze statue of the Emperor Nero
- Colossus of Barletta, a giant statue of an unidentified Roman emperor
- Colossus of Constantine, a giant bronze and marble statue of Constantine the Great
- Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III
- Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886
- The Motherland Calls, a 1967 statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad
- The 12 Jin Ren 12 Colossi made by the order of Shihuangdi
- "Leonardo's horse" or Gran Cavallo, a giant, unfinished statue of a horse by Leonardo da Vinci
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Famous quotes containing the word statues:
“America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they’d be smaller then these.”
—Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)
“And are not men than they more blind,
Who having eyes yet never find
The bliss in which they move:
Like statues dead
They up and down are carried,
Yet neither see nor love.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)
“Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)