Statue
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).
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.
Statue Media
Statue of Unity (2018), the world's tallest statue, in Gujarat, India
Urfa Man, a 1.80 metres (5 ft 11 in) of standstone developed in c. 9,000 BC and now housed at Şanlıurfa Museum
Löwenmensch figurine, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, now in Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany, possibly the oldest undisputed statuette. Aurignacian era, 40,000 BC–35,000 BC
Venus of Dolní Věstonice, ceramic figurine, 29,000 BC–25,000 BC
Venus of Willendorf, one of the oldest known statuettes, Upper Paleolithic, 24,000 BC–22,000 BC
Ain Ghazal statues, c. 7000 BC, found in Ain Ghazal, Jordan
Great Sphinx of Giza, c. 2558–2532 BC, the largest monolithic statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 6 metres (20 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high. Giza, Egypt.
