Statue facts for kids

A statue of Ronald Reagan at the National Statuary Hall Collection

A Statue is a model of somebody or something, usually of a person or sometimes an animal. It is a sculpture. Several kinds of material can be used to make a statue, e.g. stone, bronze, clay, or wood. Statues are often at least life-size (the same size as the real person), but often they are much bigger, especially statues in the open air. Statues are often made to remember an important person (such as the statue of Alfred the Great), or to remember an event or an idea (such as the Statue of Liberty).

Statue of Alfred the Great in the town square in Winchester

Usually there is some writing on a statue to say who the person is. This writing is called an epigraph. The statue may be standing on a base. This base is called a "plinth".

A bust is a statue of the head, shoulders and upper body of a person.

A colossus is an enormous statue.

A statue of someone on horseback (riding a horse) is called an equestrian statue.

Images for kids

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  Easter Island moai statues

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  Löwenmensch figurine, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, now in Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany, the oldest known zoomorphic statuette, Aurignacian era, 40,000 BC-30,000 BC

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  The Charioteer of Delphi, 474 BC, Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece

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  Nara Daibutsu, c. 752, Nara, Japan

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  Moai of Easter Island facing inland, Ahu Tongariki, c. 1250 - 1500, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s

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  The Great Buddha of Kamakura, c. 1252, Japan

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  Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais (1884–c. 1889) in Victoria Tower Gardens, London, England.

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  The Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States, c.1886

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  Henry Bain Smith's bronze of Robert Burns, 1892, above Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen, Scotland

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  statue of Dr. Jose Rizal. at the Luneta Park, Philippines c.1908

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  Thomas Brock, John Everett Millais, at Tate Britain 1905

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  Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1931

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  U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, located in Arlington, Virginia, 1954

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  A closeup of the replica statue of Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, 1981, The original c. 200 AD is in the nearby Capitoline Museum, Rome

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  Spring Temple Buddha, the world's tallest statue, overall 128 m (420 ft) in height, completed 2002, China.

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  Kailashnath Mahadev Statue, Bhaktapur, Nepal. The world's tallest Statue of Lord Shiva, 144 feet (44 m), 2003–Present.

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  Lord Murugan Statue, Batu Caves, Malaysia, 140 feet (42.7 m).

See also

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