Art · Curated list
Statue of Liberty, Christ the Redeemer, David (Michelangelo) and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the sculpture's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
1
Colossal sculpture in New York Harbor
A huge neoclassical sculpture of a crowned woman in robes, standing on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, part of New York City. The people of France gave the copper-covered statue to the United States; the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed it, and Gustave Eiffel built its metal framework.
Wikidata · Photo: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0
2
Colossal statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, designed by the French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, working with the French engineer Albert Caquot; the Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida carved the face. Built between 1922 and 1931, it stands 30 metres (98 ft) tall, not counting its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and looks east.
Wikidata · Photo: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
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Renaissance statue in Florence, Italy
A marble masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture that Michelangelo carved from 1501 to 1504. Standing 5.17 metres tall, it was the first colossal marble statue of the High Renaissance, and the first made anywhere since antiquity, a model for sculptors of the 16th century and later.
Wikidata · Photo: Commonists, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sculpture by Edvard Eriksen
A bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen of a mermaid turning into a human, displayed on a rock at the water's edge on the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Wikidata · Photo: Benoît Prieur, CC0
5
Ancient Greek marble statue of Aphrodite
Also called the Aphrodite of Melos, a marble sculpture of ancient Greece from the Hellenistic period. Its exact date is uncertain, but scholars now generally place it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC.
6
Colossal statue of Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat, India
At 182 metres, the tallest statue in the world, in the Narmada valley near Kevadia, in the Indian state of Gujarat. It shows Sardar Patel (1875–1950), the Indian independence activist and politician who was independent India's first deputy prime minister and home minister.
Wikidata · Photo: Snehrashmi, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Fountain in Rome, Italy
A fountain of the 18th century in Rome's Trevi district, designed by the Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini. It measures 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) across and 26.3 metres (86 ft) in height, which makes it the world's largest Baroque fountain, and it is one of the world's most famous fountains of any kind.
8
Prehistoric figurine from Austria
A Venus figurine 11.1 centimetres (4.4 in) tall, reckoned to be c. 30,000 years old. It turned up on 7 August 1908 during an excavation by Josef Bayer, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Szombathy at a Paleolithic site near the village of Willendorf, in Lower Austria.
Wikidata · Photo: User:MatthiasKabel, CC BY 2.5
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Brass sculpture and fountain in Brussels, Belgium
A landmark bronze fountain sculpture 55.5 cm (21.9 in) high in central Brussels, Belgium, showing a puer mingens: a naked boy urinating into the basin. It is recorded as early as the mid-15th century, but the Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder redesigned it, and his version was installed in 1619.
10
Statue in Poland honoring Wikipedia editors
A statue in Słubice, Poland, honouring the people who contribute to Wikipedia, designed by the Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan. It was unveiled in Frankfurt Square on 22 October 2014, at a ceremony attended by representatives of local Wikimedia chapters and of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Sculpture by Michelangelo
A sculpture in Carrara marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti of Mary and Jesus at Mount Golgotha, representing the Virgin Mary's "Sixth Sorrow", made for Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, where it still is. A key work of the sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, it is often taken to mark the start of the High Renaissance.
Wikidata · Photo: Michelangelo, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Ancient Greek sculpture
Also called the Nike of Samothrace, a votive monument first found on Samothrace, an island in the northeastern Aegean Sea. A masterpiece of Hellenistic Greek sculpture, it dates from the start of the 2nd century BC.
13
Volgograd monumental sculpture
A huge war memorial sculpture, neoclassicist and socialist realist, on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed chiefly by the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich, helped by the architect Yakov Belopolsky, the concrete figure honours those killed in the Battle of Stalingrad, and dominates a memorial complex that also has several plazas and other sculptures.
Wikidata · Photo: VladFedotov, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ancient sculpture excavated in Rome in 1506 AD
Also called the Laocoön Group, a sculpture that has ranked among the most famous from antiquity ever since it was dug up in Rome in 1506 and put on public show in the Vatican Museums, where it still is. It is very probably the statue that Pliny the Elder, the chief Roman writer on art, praised in the very highest terms; he named Greek sculptors as its makers, though he gave no date for it.
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Two Ancient Egyptian statues near Luxor
Two large stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, standing in front of his ruined Mortuary Temple, the largest temple of the Theban Necropolis. In place since 1350 BC, they were familiar to the Greeks and Romans of antiquity and later to early modern travellers and Egyptologists.
Wikidata · Photo: Marc Ryckaert ( MJJR ), CC BY 3.0
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Monument in Germany
A monument in Berlin, Germany, designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to celebrate Prussia's victory over Denmark in the Second Schleswig War. By its inauguration on 2 September 1873, Prussia had won two more wars, the Austro-Prussian War (1866) against Austria and its German allies and the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) against France, and the statue took on a new meaning.
17
Bronze sculpture of Rome's founding legend
A bronze sculpture showing a scene from the legend of how Rome was founded: a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the mythical twins who founded the city.
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Ancient sculpture from Egypt
A painted bust of limestone coated with stucco, showing Nefertiti, Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. It is on show in Berlin's Neues Museum.
Wikidata · Photo: Philip Pikart, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
A sculpted altarpiece group in white marble, set in a raised aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria, a church in Rome. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the foremost sculptor of his time, designed and carved it, and also designed the chapel's setting in paint, stucco and marble.
Wikidata · Photo: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sculpture by Myron
An ancient Greek sculpture by Myron of an athlete throwing a discus, completed around 460–450 BC, at the start of the Classical period.
Wikidata · Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Prehistoric ceramic sculpture discovered in Brno, Czech Republic
A ceramic Venus figurine of a naked woman, between 31,000–27,000 years old. It was discovered south of Brno, at the Paleolithic site of Dolní Věstonice at the foot of Děvín mountain, in today's Czech Republic.
Wikidata · Photo: che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikimedia projects.) guidance: Danny B., CC BY-SA 2.5
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Hadrianic-era statue
A renowned marble statue from antiquity.
Wikidata · Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0
23
Moabite stele commemorating Mesha's victory over Israel (c. 840 BCE)
Also called the Moabite Stone, a stele from around 840 BCE bearing an important Canaanite inscription in the name of Mesha, King of Moab. Mesha tells how Chemosh, Moab's god, was angry with his people and let the Kingdom of Israel subjugate them, until at last Chemosh came back and helped Mesha throw off Israel's yoke and restore Moab's lands.
16th-century Mexica sculpture
A Mexica sculpture of the late post-classic period in Mexico City's National Anthropology Museum, perhaps the most famous work of Mexica sculpture. It weighs 24,590 kg (54,210 lb), is 98 centimetres (39 in) thick, and measures 3.6 metres (12 ft) across.
Wikidata · Photo: Anonymous Mexica artist, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Pair of ancient Greek bronze statues
Also called the Riace Warriors, two full-size Greek bronze statues known as Statue A and Statue B. They show two naked, bearded men standing a little larger than life; they once held weapons and wore headgear, both now lost. The lost-wax method was used to cast them, and their eyes, lips and other details use materials other than bronze.
Wikidata · Photo: Benjamin Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Late Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark
An artefact of the Nordic Bronze Age found in Denmark, representing the sun chariot: a big bronze disc and a bronze horse, mounted on a device with spoked wheels.
Wikidata · Photo: Nationalmuseet, John Lee, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a cave in Germany
Also called the Löwenmensch figurine, a prehistoric sculpture found in 1939 in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave belonging to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. Its German name, meaning "lion-person" or "lion-human", is the one most used, because it was found, and is shown, in Germany.
Wikidata · Photo: Dagmar Hollmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Greek sculpture of the 3rd century BC
Also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, a half-reclining ancient Roman statue in marble, now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It copies a lost Greek sculpture of the Hellenistic period, thought to have been in bronze.
Wikidata · Photo: User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT This illustration was made by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT Please credit this : Jean-Pol GRANDMONT An…, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sculpture by Michelangelo
A sculpture by Michelangelo, the Italian High Renaissance artist, in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1505 for his tomb, it shows the biblical Moses with horns on his head, following chapter 34 of Exodus as the Vulgate, the Latin Bible then in use, describes him.
Wikidata · Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Fountain in Brussels, Belgium
A fountain sculpture of modern times in the centre of Brussels, commissioned in 1985 by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie and installed in 1987 as a partner to Manneken Pis, the city's famous statue.
Every Wikidata item that is a sculpture, a statue or a bust, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 30 are shown.
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