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.
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. It is situated at the height of 700-metre, which is the peak of Corcovado mountain.
Statues have been created by man since the prehistory for all kinds of reasons and in all sizes. One of the first statues, a 29.6 cm (11.7 inches) high sculpture called the Lion Man, was created almost 32,000 years ago. The original Seven Wonders of the World included two statues: The Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
Finished in 1995, the figure is the 3rd largest statue in the world, standing a total of 120 meters (394 feet) high including the 10m (30 ft) base and a 10m (30 ft) high lotus platform. Visitors to the Buddha statue can take an elevator to a platform where an observation deck is situated.
Located at the Giza plateau in Cairo, Egypt, the great sphinx is among the oldest and largest world statues. Though considerably small in size compared to the surrounding pyramids, The Great Sphinx is the world’s biggest monolith statue.
Largest and tallest face in the world, made up of 500 tonnes of steel. Height of 112 ft symbolically denotes that Adiyogi gave 112 ways to explore the human system.
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