The oldest statue is known to be made over 30,000-40,000 years ago. No one knows precisely, but western art is said to have originated from ancient Greece, it then grew popular in various civilizations during the time. While there is a vast collection of such beautiful artefacts, here is a list of 12 most famous statues in the world.
For the last two weeks, bored pandas from around the globe have been submitting their pictures of the best sculptures here. We have received more than 160 pictures and hundreds of votes which resulted in this awesome list. We added a couple of our own pictures, and made the final list of the most creative sculptures and statues from around the world.
This statue is the world’s biggest Art Deco sculpture and Jesus’s fifth biggest statue in the world. It has a height of 30 metres or 98 ft excluding it’s 8 metres pedestal. The arms are around 28 metres or 92 ft wide.
Christ the Redeemer Statue was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Brazilian Independence in 1922. It was completed in 1931, and at 38 meter (125 ft), became the largest Art Deco sculpture in the world! It’s made of soapstone and concrete and weighs over 700 tons.
10 wonderful, most famous and greatest statues of the world built by mankind to show loyalty, nationality, wonder, amusement and power. World Famous Statues
The statue of Jesus Christ at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is the largest Art Deco statue all over the world and is the fifth largest statue of Jesus. It stands tall at 98 ft, not including its pedal of 26 ft and the arm stretch 92 ft wide. The statue is located at the top of the Corcovado Mountain.
Among the most famous sculptures in the world, these are some of the best preserved. The quality of a sculpture is defined by the viewer’s ability to see more than the form and expression, but to feel what the artist was attempting to evoke in sculpting the piece.
10 World Famous Statues. … is a famous statue in Mamayev … Any ranking of the world’s greatest sculptures that does not list Michelangelo’s David or the …
“David” is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 meter (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of Florence.
We humans have immortalized some of the greatest scientists, most extravagant orators, and most remarkable adventurers in statue form. But sometimes, we make sculptures which aren’t as special; unusual statues such as the Michael Jackson statue outside a McDonalds in the Netherlands or famous Czech artist David Černý’s controversial …
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