SculptPedia — Digital Encyclopedia of World Sculpture
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Elizabeth II Equestrian Statue
A bronze royal figure on horseback atop a tall granite base.
Firemen's Monument
An 8.5-meter memorial honoring Hoboken’s Volunteer Fire Department.
The Gladiators
A bronze tribute showing the artist sculpting his own gladiators.
Three Standing Figures
A large stone work first shown in Battersea Park in 1948.
Armento Rider
A finely preserved bronze horse and rider with a youthful, beardless figure.
Bartolomé Mitre Monument
Bronze figure on polished red granite, surrounded by Carrara marble allegories.
Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument
Outdoor sculpture depicting the Polish-Lithuanian hero, installed near Shedd Aquarium.
Monument of Leopold II
An equestrian tribute later shadowed by colonial violence and repeated vandalism.
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
Bronze figure in ascetic dress, inspired by Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March.
Monumento a Júlio de Castilhos
A commemorative monument honoring a key political figure in southern Brazil.
Guarding Lion
A reclining lion with its head raised, cast in iron in 1824.
William the Silent
A Rutgers monument honoring Dutch heritage and linked to campus traditions.
Capitoline Wolf
A bronze symbol of Latin heritage with a turbulent wartime history.
Fountain of Eternal Life
A memorial fountain honoring Greater Cleveland residents who served, died, or went missing in military service.
The Three Graces
Three nude goddesses stand together in a graceful neoclassical composition.
Harvey W. Scott
A bronze memorial to an American pioneer, editor, and historian.
U Nativu
A limestone menhir with carved shoulders, face, and a grooved chest.
Pasaże
A memorial at Portbou beside the local cemetery, honoring Walter Benjamin.
Große Zwei V
A bronze work by Fritz Koenig linked to Dante’s tragic lovers.
Runner Relief
A nude athlete turns back while moving forward, caught between two artistic eras.
George Washington
A marble statue of the U.S. president dressed as a Roman general.
Ruhender Verkehr
A fully encased car turns parking into an ironic public artwork.
Attic funerary relief
A marble horse relief with a groom, likely from an Athenian tomb.
Dona Marinera
A tribute to the women who sustained fishing families during maritime times.
Lycosoura Demeter
Surviving remnant of a colossal cult statue from ancient Lycosura.
How Doth the Little Crocodile
A bronze outdoor work inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem and Alice in Wonderland.
Big 4
Steel bars form a logo-inspired framework used for changing art installations.
Cuban Friendship Urn
A marble memorial tied to USS Maine deaths and shifting U.S.-Cuba history.
Diptych of Stilicho
An ivory consular diptych showing a family group in formal frontal pose.
Immortality Overtaking Time
A Baroque allegorical quadriga in green-patinated copper atop the Grand Palais.
Count of Porto Alegre Monument
A marble statue of a military hero on a tall granite pedestal.
Fuente de la Abundancia
A 17th-century Madrid fountain later demolished and replaced in the same square.
Paisley War Memorial
A bronze equestrian group on a granite plinth, commemorating Paisley’s war dead.
Inukshuk
A gray granite memorial symbolizing hospitality and openness to the world.
Klácelka
A sandstone cave filled with allegorical heroes, dwarves, and reliefs from a fable.
Two Working Men
A pair of statues that became known locally by the nickname “Cha y Miah.”
Dickens and Little Nell
Bronze figure group portraying Charles Dickens with Nell Trent from The Old Curiosity Shop.
Mourning Parents
A granite pair of grieving figures created as a memorial to a fallen son.
Goya Memorial
An elevated statue of the painter presides over a sculptural fountain setting.
Aschaffenburger Maulaff
A carved oak figure of a farmer in Spessart costume with a wide-open mouth.
War Memorial of Capoulet-et-Junac
Three figures embody fear, suffering, and death in a powerful wartime scene.
Clock Tower
A landmark Victorian clock tower built to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.
Virgin on a Wide Throne
A Gothic devotional image with a lively, asymmetrical pose and symbolic apple.
Korè 675
An archaic marble figure of a young woman with surviving traces of polychromy.
Anscavallo
A large sculpture named from Ansbach and the Italian word for horse.
Tyler Davidson Fountain
An iconic downtown fountain long regarded as Cincinnati’s symbol.
Nancy
A iron stable-mobile by Alexander Calder, later installed in Palma's Royal Garden.
Flygarmonumentet
A bronze eagle poised to take flight, honoring fallen Swedish aviators.
Jardin d'émail
An outdoor work designed to be touched, walked through, and played in.
Vulcan statue
A towering cast-iron Roman god symbolizing Birmingham’s iron and steel heritage.
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