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Found 45 sculptures.

Women of Steel bronze sculpture of two women standing arm in arm in work clothes.

Women of Steel

Bronze tribute to Sheffield’s women steelworkers during both world wars.

 Antimonumento 49 ABC stands on a paved plaza in front of a modern building, with a small bouquet of white flowers and a pink sign reading \

Antimonumento 49 ABC

Colorful metal memorial with the number 49 and the initials ABC.

 Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture of a reclining figure with light hair on a large rocky boulder.

Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture

A three-part memorial mixing bronze, granite, quartz, and porcelain.

 Neuf Lignes Obliques sculpture standing between apartment buildings on a busy city street lined with parked cars and palm trees.

Neuf Lignes Obliques

Nine oblique steel beams meet overhead in a striking monument.

 Antimonumento 5J glowing orange in a public plaza at twilight, with people and audio equipment nearby.

Antimonumento 5J

A red five stacked over a J, created in tribute to protest events.

 Infinite Wave memorial with arched metal bars forming a tunnel-like walkway beside a curved stone wall.

Infinite Wave

Thirty-one intertwined metal streams form a single wave of remembrance.

 Trains to Life – Trains to Death monument showing several bronze children on a stone base with a plaque.

Trains to Life – Trains to Death

Two groups of children, broken suitcases and a track symbolise rescue and loss.

 Virginia Women\'s Monument with life-sized metallic statues arranged in a circle, including a central figure holding a Votes for Women banner.

Virginia Women's Monument

Bronze figures of eleven Virginia women stand in a granite plaza.

 Antimonumenta, a large purple feminist symbol with a raised fist, stands in a public plaza covered in graffiti-like markings.

Antimonumenta

A symbolic installation demanding justice for women facing violence.

 Curved stone wall of the Japanese American Memorial inscribed with “HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG,” beside a reflecting pool and boulders.

Japanese American Memorial

A bronze crane tangled in barbed wire anchors this World War II memorial.

 The National Police Memorial with a tall translucent teal column beside a dark memorial structure.

National Police Memorial

A central London tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty.

 Two colossal abstract concrete figures of the Monument to Humanity stand on a hillside with scaffolding between them and two people at the base.

Statue of Humanity

Two halves of one figure reached out and held each other’s hand.

 Victims of Communism Memorial statue of a female figure holding a torch aloft against a blue sky.

Victims of Communism Memorial

A bronze replica of the Goddess of Democracy honoring victims of communist tyranny.

 Solovetsky Stone monument, a large granite boulder on a stone base, with a beige building in the background.

Solovetsky Stone

A granite boulder from the former Solovetsky camp, now a powerful memorial.

 Aboriginal Memorial sculpture made up of numerous decorated wooden poles standing upright on a light-colored platform.

Aboriginal Memorial

Two hundred decorated hollow log coffins commemorating Indigenous Australians.

 Willy Brandt Memorial bronze statue of a seated man in a suit on a bench, with tall dry grasses behind it.

Willy Brandt Memorial

Bronze figure seated on a bench, commemorating a former chancellor and Nobel laureate.

 Granite Monument to Victims of the Wola Massacre with engraved Polish text and memorial candles at the base.

Monument to Victims of the Wola Massacre

A granite memorial with engraved names and ten pits evoking people lined up for execution.

 The Staten Island 9/11 Memorial postcard-shaped white monument stands on a waterfront boardwalk beside metal railings and water.

Postcards

Two giant postcards honor Staten Island victims of the September 11 attacks.

 Alan Turing Memorial bronze statue seated on a park bench holding an apple.

Alan Turing Memorial

A seated figure on a bench holding an apple in Sackville Gardens.

 Metal shoes from the Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial on a concrete riverbank with calm water behind them.

Shoes on the Danube Bank

Abandoned shoes mark the riverbank where victims were executed and swept away.

 Irish Hunger Memorial with a rocky upper facade and illuminated stepped section beside downtown skyscrapers at night.

Irish Hunger Memorial

A hillside memorial with Irish plants, stone walls, and engraved eyewitness quotations.

 The Shot in the Back monument showing two stone figures on a dark base with Cyrillic text, set among trees and paved paths.

The Shot in the Back

A 3.5-meter monument showing a woman holding a wounded man.

 Hailfingen-Tailfingen Memorial with a textured triangular metal sculpture in front of a concrete wall.

Hailfingen-Tailfingen Memorial

An uneven triangle stands before a long concrete wall of remembrance.

 Pink Triangle Park memorial columns with triangular caps among tall grasses

Pink Triangle Park

Fifteen white columns topped with pink triangles form a memorial triangle on a slope.

 The Freedom Monument with a golden equestrian statue atop a tall column in a city square.

Freedom Monument

A gilded bronze Saint George atop a towering granite monument.

 Dorna, a rust-colored abstract metal sculpture with a pointed top and splayed base, set on a stone wall among shrubs.

Dorna

A monument honoring the Portuguese pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela.

 Rusty metal plaque of the Dejudaization Institute Memorial with the cut-out German text \

Dejudaization Institute Memorial

A commemorative installation acknowledging Protestant church responsibility and historical antisemitism.

 The Train of Pain monument at night, showing a long dark sculpture of clustered human figures on a light-colored base.

Train of Pain

A memorial monument marking the mass deportations in Soviet Moldavia.

 The Battle of Britain Monument with a silver sculpture above dark relief panels and carved stone text, with people standing nearby.

Battle of Britain Monument

Bronze relief panels and plaques commemorate the pilots and aircrew of 1940.

 Peace Statue showing a bronze girl seated barefoot on a stool beside an empty wooden chair, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Peace Statue

A bronze memorial for comfort women and a symbol against sexual violence.

 Bouquet of Tulips sculpture showing a giant hand holding colorful tulip-like forms against an overcast sky.

Bouquet of Tulips

A hand holds 11 tulips in a memorial tribute to the 2015 Paris attacks.

 Kindred Spirits sculpture with tall silvery feather-like forms arranged in a circle on a grassy lawn.

Kindred Spirits

Nine steel eagle feathers form a bowl-like tribute to shared generosity.

 Commonwealth Memorial Gates beside a tree-lined avenue at Hyde Park Corner, London.

Commonwealth Memorial Gates

Four Portland stone pillars and a pavilion commemorate soldiers from across the British Empire.

 Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism, a dark gray concrete block with a recessed opening in a park setting.

Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism

A slanted concrete monument with a viewing window showing a film of two men kissing.

 De Schreeuw sculpture with six wavy steel strips forming a face in a park

De Schreeuw

Six steel strips rise from the ground to form a face in anguish.

 Memoria Urbana, a skeletal church outline silhouetted against a cloudy sky in Berlin.

Memoria Urbana

An illuminated steel outline recreating the vanished church above its former site.

 America\'s Response Monument bronze horse soldier statue on a rock-like base

America's Response Monument

A bronze tribute to Special Forces overlooking the 9/11 Memorial.

 Knife Angel sculpture with outstretched hands and feathered wings outside a stone cathedral.

Knife Angel

A towering figure made from surrendered blades, honoring victims of knife crime.

 The Women of World War II monument with eleven relief figures and gold lettering.

Monument to the Women of World War II

A tall hollow bronze form honouring women’s wartime contributions and sacrifice.

 The National Katyń Memorial rises from a circular dark fountain in a landscaped plaza with benches and nearby high-rise buildings.

National Katyń Memorial

A towering Baltimore monument honoring victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre.

 The Thanksgiving Candle monument rises from a wooded hill under a clear blue sky.

Thanksgiving Candle

A candle-shaped monument honoring the unknown heroes of Moldova.

 Bronze Warrior on Horseback statue on a tall pedestal with a fountain at its base.

Warrior on Horseback

A bronze rider monument rising above a fountain-topped pedestal in Skopje.

 Bronze Monument to Dog Jock sculpture showing a dog nestled between two large hands on a stone pedestal in a park.

Monument to Dog Jock

A small monument showing a dog held in human hands, reaching out a paw.

 A dark triangular slab of the Memorial to the Murdered Sinti and Roma of Europe floats on water with a small cluster of flowers at its center.

Memorial to the Murdered Sinti and Roma of Europe

A circular water basin with broken stone slabs and a single floating rose.

 Orbit Tower’s red metal framework with a white spiral walkway rising to the top against a blue sky.

Orbit Tower

A twisting red tower that combines sculpture, engineering, and panoramic views.