In 1635 – 38, Pietro Boncompagni commissioned from Algardi a colossal statue of Philip Neri with kneeling angels for Santa Maria in Vallicella, completed in 1640.

He now contemplated a great work, a colossal statue of Religion.

The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

One picture shows 44 men towing a colossal statue.

A colossal statue of Hadrian was raised behind the building by the people of Athens in honour of the emperor's generosity.

An equally colossal chryselephantine statue of Zeus occupied the cella of the temple.

In Coatlinchan a colossal statue weighing 168 tons was found that was thought to represent Tlaloc.

Like Mansart's dome at Les Invalides ( which he had visited in 1838 ), Walter's dome is double, with a large oculus in the inner dome, through which is seen The Apotheosis of Washington painted on a shell suspended from the supporting ribs, which also support the visible exterior structure and the tholos that supports Freedom, a colossal statue that was added to the top of the dome in 1863.

Constantine's triumphal arch was carefully positioned to align with the colossal statue of Sol by the Colosseum, so that Sol formed the dominant backdrop when seen from the direction of the main approach towards the arch.

The name Colosseum has long been believed to be derived from a colossal statue of Nero nearby ( the statue of Nero was named after the Colossus of Rhodes ).

His plans reflected the nationalistic spirit of the time, and called for a structure adorned with six equestrian and 31 pedestrian statues of colossal proportions, crowned by a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

A colossal statue of St Christopher, standing against a pillar near the western entrance and dating from 1413, was destroyed in 1786.

To celebrate their victory, the Rhodians sold the equipment left behind for 300 talents and decided to use the money to build a colossal statue of their patron god, Helios.

* Michael Lahanas, " The colossal Zeus statue of Pheidias "

Phidias also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze statue of Athena which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental gateway that served as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

On the Acropolis of Athens Pheidias set up a colossal bronze statue of Athena, the Athena Promachos, which was visible far out at sea.

Despite a scarcity of archaeological evidence, the existence of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite state has been deduced from a colossal statue erected at Luxor by Pharaoh Ramesses II, in the 13th century BCE, which lists Mu ' ab among a series of nations conquered during a campaign.

The name was soon changed to Apollonia, on account of a temple dedicated to Apollo in the town, containing a famous colossal statue of the god Apollo by Calamis, 30 cubits high, transported later to Rome by Lucullus and placed in the Capitol.

They include a colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre ( the Antinous Mondragone ), a bas-relief from the Villa Albani, a statue in the Capitoline museum ( the so-called Capitoline Antinous, now accepted to be a portrayal of Hermes ), another in Berlin, another in the Lateran and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum ; and many more may be seen in museums across Europe.

* The colossal statue of the Athena Parthenos, which Phidias has made for the Parthenon, is completed and dedicated.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

* Colossus of Constantine, colossal statue formerly in the west apse of the Basilica of Maxentius

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Among the chief of these are the fanciful Maharaja of Mysore, somewhat overladen with ornament, and the colossal equestrian statue of Lord Roberts ( 1896 ) upon its important pedestal, girdled with a frieze of figures, now set up in Calcutta, and a statue of Queen Victoria for Dundee.

This seated statue, good as it is, was soon surpassed by those of Dr Dale ( 1898, in the city museum, Birmingham ) and Professor Huxley ( 1900 ), but the colossal memorial statue of Queen Victoria ( 1901 ), for Manchester, was less successful.

In 1901 Brock was awarded the colossal equestrian statue of Edward the Black Prince, set up in Leeds City Square, and was also given perhaps his most significant commission, the vast multi-figure Imperial Memorial to Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace.

In 1409 – 1411 he executed the colossal seated figure of Saint John the Evangelist, which until 1588 occupied a niche of the old cathedral façade, and is now placed in the Museo dell ' Opera del Duomo.

He afterwards executed for Greenwich Hospital four colossal busts of the admirals Duncan, Howe, Vincent and Nelson ; and so rapidly did his reputation spread that the next bust which he executed, that of John Horne Tooke, procured him commissions to the value of £ 2, 000.

By 1824, he had executed 70 busts in marble of which 20 were of colossal size.

His colossal bronze statues of Blücher are 13 feet in height, and he also executed the greater part of the 12 statues in iron which compose the National Monument for the Liberation Wars on the Kreuzberg, near Berlin.

He executed the colossal group, Civic Virtue, at the City Hall Fountains in New York ( 1919 ).

At St Petersburg he executed a colossal statue of Peter the Great in bronze, known as the Bronze Horseman, together with his pupil and stepdaughter Marie-Anne Collot.

His great patron, however, was Napoleon, for whom he executed a colossal bust, and who sent him, on the recommendations of his sister Elisa Baciocchi, to Carrara in 1807, to direct the academy of sculpture, in spite of local opposition.

During the 1830s, he executed the colossal work Victims of the Revolution at Brussels, as well as numerous statues and busts.

:" At Pergamum there is a great marble altar, high, with colossal sculptures, representing a battle of the giants.

In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

Internally it was lavishly decorated with gold-trimmed marble floors, columns, mosaics and colossal statuary.

His sculptures have never inspired the admiration given those of Michelangelo, specially the colossal ( 5. 05 m ) marble group of Hercules and Cacus ( completed in 1534 ) in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, and Adam and Eve in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which both stand within sight of some of Michelangelo's masterworks.

He created colossal gold-plated marble statues (" chryselephantine statues "), generally face and hands, which were highly celebrated and admired in his own time: Athena, situated in the interior of the Parthenon, whose splendor reached the faithful through the open doors, and Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia, considered in its age and in later ages to be one of the marvels of the world.

The shaft is made from a series of 20 colossal Carrara marble drums, each weighing about 32 tons, with a diameter of 3. 7 metres ( 11 ft ).

Around the room's perimeter stand colossal columns of variegated breccia marble quarried along the Potomac River.

In 2008, archaeologists digging at the ancient site of Sagalassos in Turkey discovered a colossal marble head which is believed to be that of Faustina.

Probably in the 2nd century, the Roman Lucius Ampelius recorded in his liber memorialis (" Notebook "), in Chapter VIII ( Miracula Mundi ), " At Pergamum there is a great marble altar, 40 feet ( 12 m ) high, with colossal sculptures.

After studying for some time in Paris, he went to Rome, where he remained for twelve years and sculpted a number of groups in marble, including, besides subjects from classical mythology, a colossal representation of " The Muse of History Recording the Deeds of Gustavus Adolphus ," in which are depicted the achievements of Gustav II Adolf before the Chancellor Oxenstierna.

This colossal marble sculptural group represents the myth of Dirce first wife of Lykos, King of Thebes.

When seen, he appears as a colossal " cowled and muffled figure " seated on a marble chair.

During the works ( 1927 ), however, the colossal head and arms of a marble statue were discovered.