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Golden Bridge

Da Nang, Vietnam

Dragon Bridge

Da Nang, Vietnam

Puppy Sculpture - Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao, Spain

Apennine Colossus

Tuscany, Italy

Christ The Redeemer
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

The Awakening

Maryland, USA

Cloud Gate

Chicago, USA

Mount Rushmore

South Dakota, USA

Statue Of Liberty

New York, USA

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Stone of Hope

Washington DC, USA

Metalmorphosis

Charlotte North Carolina, USA

The Knotted Gun, Turtle Bay

New York, USA

Charging Bull sculpture (or Wall Street Bull)

New York City's Financial District

Expansion

New York, USA

Statue of Abraham Lincoln

Washington DC, USA

Ex Nihilo - National Cathedral

Washington, DC, USA

Crazy Horse Monument

South Dakota, USA

Mother Nature

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Forever Bicycles

Austin, Texas, USA

A Wild Life for Wildlife

World Trade Center's S. Oculus Plaza

New York City, USA

De Vaartkapoen

Brussels, Belgium

The Black Ghost

Klaipeda Lithuania. Klaipeda, Lithuania

Ayrton Senna Sculpture

Barcelona, Spain

Popped Up

Budapest, Hungary

Cristo Protetor De Encantado

State Of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Emperors Yan and Huang Statue
Zhengzhou, China

Cristo De La Concordia

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Gallos - King Arthur Statue

Cornwall England, UK

The Kelpies - Horse Sculptures

Grangemouth Scotland, UK

Leshan Giant Buddha

Leshan, China

Pieta (Compassion)

by Michelangelo

St Peters Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Statue of David

by Michelangelo

Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy

Serpent D' ocean

Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins, France

Sacro Bosco

Bomarzo, Italy

Statue of Lord Shiva

Murdeshwar, India

 

Tian Tan Buddha

Ngong Ping, Hong Kong

Moai

Easter Island

Spirit Of Haida Gwaii, The Jade Canoe

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Moses Basilica of San Pietro

by Michelangelo

Vincoli in Rome, Italy

Spring Temple Buddha

Henan, China

Leshan Giant Buddha

by Monk - Hai Tong

Leshan, Sichuan Province, China 

Venus of Willendorf

(29,500 years old - Oolitic Limestone)

Creator Unknown

Natural History Museum,Vienna, Austria

Saint Andrew

by François Duquesnoy

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 

Rome, Italy

Winged Victory of Samothrace

(Goddess of Victory) 

 Credited to Pythokritos

Louvre Museum in Paris, France

Phuket Big Buddha

Phuket, Thailand

Spring Temple Buddha

Henan, China

The Burghers Of Calais

London, England, United Kingdom

La Mano Del Desierto

Atacama Desert, Chile

Maman

Bilbao, Spain

Franz Kafka, Rotating Head

Prague, Czech Republic

Angel Of The North

Gateshead, England, United Kingdom

Singing Ringing Tree, Burnley

United Kingdom

Wat Plai Laem

Koh Samui, Thailand

Lord Murugan Statue

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rock Sculpture fo Decabalus

Orsova, Romania

Virgin Del Socavon

Oruro, Bolivia

Christ Of The Abyss

Key Largo, Florida USA

Guanyin Of Nanshan

Sanya, Hainan, China

Force of Nature

Doha, Qatar

Les Voyageurs

Marseilles, France

Nelson Mandela

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Chinggis Khaan Stature Complex

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Eiffel Tower

Paris, France

Stonehenge 

Wiltshire, England

Rooftop of Casa Batllo

Barcelona Spain

Park Güell

Barcelona Spain

Great Wall Of China

China

Desert City

Petra, Jordan, the Nabataean Caravan City

Pyramids

Giza, Egypt

Mask of Sorrow

Magadan, Russia

Guardians of Time

Great Brittain

Lion of Lucerne

Switzerland

Le Génie du Mal  - The Genius of Evil

"Lucifer of Liège"

by Guillaume

Geefs in St. Paul's Cathedral Belgium

Kiss of death - Poblenou Cemetery

Barcelona, Spain

Jatayu Earth's Center

Jatayu National Park Roadd, Kerala, India

Balloon Dog

by Jeff Koons,

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Little Mermaid

by Edvard Eriksen

Langelinie promenade, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Bird

by Fernando Botero

Singapore River by the UOB Plaza, Singapore

 Hercules and Cacus

by Baccio Bandinelli 

Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy

Abduction of Persephone or Rape of Prosepina

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

Apollo and Daphne

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Rome, Italy

The Thinker

by Auguste Rodin

Rodin Museum Paris, France

The Gates of Hell

by Auguste Rodin

Musée D’Orsay, Paris, France

Monument To Balzac

by Auguste Rodin

Musée Rodin, Paris, France

Head of Pierre de Wissant

by Auguste Rodin

LACMA in Los Angeles, CA USA

Hermitage The Three Graces

by Antonio Canova

St. Petersburg, Russia

Hiawatha

by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Metro Museum Manhattan, New York USA

Milo of Croton

by Pierre Puget

Louvre Paris, France

Neptune and Triton

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Victoria and Albert Museum London, England

Cristo della Minerva - Risen Christ

by Michelangelo

Locations in Italy, Florence and Rome 

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

by Benvenuto Cellini

Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy

The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria Rome italy 

Madonna Of Bruges

by Michelangelo

Church of Our Lady  Bruges, Belgium

The Veiled Vestal Virgin

by Raffaelle Monti

Chatsworth House England

The Veiled Virgin

by Giovanni Strazza

St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Leda and the Swan

by Timotheus

Multiple Reproductions: Italy, USA, UK, Denmark

The Terracotta Warriors 

Lintong District, Xi'an

Shaanxi Province, China

Giant Head of Mao Zedong

Changsha, China

Anne Frank Sculpture near Anne Frank House

Amsterdam 

Nest

Gili Meno Island, Indonesia

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

by Edgar Degas

Washington DC, USA

Venus de Milo

by Alexandros of Antioch

Louvre in Paris, France 

Nuclear Energy

by Henry Moore

University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois USA

Racist Dog Sculpture

Burmingham, Alabama, USA

Eagle - Abstract Art

by Alexander Calder

Seattle, Washington, USA

Lift Every Voice And Sing

Harp

by Augusta Savage

 

This temporary sculpture was commissioned for the 1939 New York World's Fair and destroyed when the fair closed.  Augusta was paid $360 and spent 2 years on it.  Unable to afford bronze casting, she made the original in lacquered plaster to resemble black basalt.

 

 

 

 

 

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