The Ngong Ping Plateau features the Po Lin Monastery and its vegetarian restaurant, as well as the-high bronze Tian Tan Buddha ( or " Giant Buddha ") statue, once the world's largest seated outdoor bronze Buddha statue.

The statue is located near Po Lin Monastery and symbolises the harmonious relationship between man and nature, people and religion.

Tung Chung serves as the gateway for those wishing to explore Ngong Ping's Big Buddha, the world's largest seated outdoor bronze Buddha statue ; and Po Lin Monastery, open daily 10: 00-17: 30.

The Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island is famous for the outdoor bronze statue, Tian Tan Buddha, which attracts a large number of visitors during the weekends and holidays.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

* the marble statue Victory ( 1540 ), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).

* the marble statue Parnassus ( 1563 ), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

* the stone statue Allegory of Winter ( 1563 – 65 ), Villa Medici, Castello

* the bronze statue Goddess Opi ( 1572 – 75 ), Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Daniel's companions Ananias ( Hananiah / Shadrach ), Azariah ( Abednego ), and Mishael ( Meshach ) refuse to bow to the emperor's golden statue and are thrown into a furnace.

Domitian as Emperor ( Vatican Museums ), possibly recut from a statue of Nero.

A statue of Francis Xavier ( middle ) with his Japanese disciples Anjirō ( left ) and Bernardo the Japanese | Bernardo ( right ), in Xavier Park ( Kagoshima, Japan ).

On visiting a Hindu temple, he found a statue of a man with a pig's head ( more than likely actually a boar's head, a representation of Varaha ), which was supposed to represent God, so he " ordered them to break that hideous form and throw it in the tank.

To date, a complete map of the area has been made, including not only the Ash Altar and temenos, but also two fountains, including the Hagno fountain mentioned by Pausanias, the hippodrome, the stadium, a building that was probably a bathhouse, the xenon ( hotel ), a stoa, several rows of seats, and a group of statue bases.

On 2 March 2008, a statue by the Berlin artist Alexander Polzin dedicated to Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist Giordano Bruno ( 1548 – 1600 ), was erected inside one of the entrances to the Potsdamer Platz Regionalbahnhof.

* Robert Morris ( Bartlett ), a 1923 statue of financier Robert Morris, by Paul Wayland Bartlett

It was part of a collection of ancient Egyptian monuments captured from the French expedition, including a sarcophagus of Nectanebo II ( EA 10 ), the statue of a high priest of Amun ( EA 81 ) and a large granite fist ( EA 9 ).

The most well-known finds include the oldest female statue made of mammoth-bone ( 22, 800 BCE ), the famous Venus of Moravany.

The most interesting pieces of the interior are a font with marble basin ( 12th – 13th century ), a silver statue of St. Lucy by Pietro Rizzo ( 1599 ), a ciborium by Luigi Vanvitelli, and a statue of the Madonna della Neve (" Madonna of the Snow ", 1512 ) by Antonello Gagini.

In 2008, Berdimuhamedow restored the traditional names of the months and days of the week ( Niyazov had renamed them after himself and his mother, among other things ), and announced plans to move the infamous gold rotating statue of Niyazov from Ashgabat's central square.

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.

In 1516 he made Tobias and the Angel ( now in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg ), and a statue of Saint Roch for the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.

A statue of Gladstone stands prominently in the front grounds of the eponymous Gladstone's Library ( formerly known as St. Deiniol's ), near the commencement of Gladstone Way at Hawarden.

Marble statue of a helmed hoplite ( 5th century BC ), Archæological Museum of Sparta, Greece

It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

The University of Texas at Austin has also recognized Johnston with a statue on the South Mall.

There is also an underwater statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe here, created in 1958 by Armando Quesado in memory of a group of divers that died here.

Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.

In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own ; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder.

He is also remembered with a large statue in the market town of Ormskirk where he graces the centre of famous student town.

In 1998, Chaplin also received a statue in Waterville, Ireland, where he spent several summers with his family in the 1960s.

There are also preliminary plans to erect a 1: 1-scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frederic Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth.

Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

Phidias left a statue of a famous Hermes Logios and Praxiteles another, also well known, showing him with Dionysus baby arms.

Elsewhere in his Church History, Eusebius reports seeing what he took to be portraits of Jesus, Peter and Paul, and also mentions a bronze statue at Banias / Paneas, of which he wrote, " They say that this statue is an image of Jesus " ( H. E.

" He also illustrates the concept by saying, " If I point to a statue of Caesar and ask you ' Who is that?

Following his mother's example, Mao also became a practising Buddhist from an early age, venerating a bronze statue of the Buddha which was in their home, but abandoned this faith in his mid-teenage years.

UNCG also has a Minerva statue, donated by the Class of 1953.

Next to menhir, stone table, and stone statue ; Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia also featured earth and stone step pyramid structures called Punden Berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan, Cisolok and Gunung Padang, West Java.

Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

There is also a campaign to erect a statue in the London Borough of Lewisham where he grew up.

The bullet also left a mark on the cape, located on the back right side of the statue.

Proserpina's figure inspired many artistic compositions, eminently in sculpture ( Bernini, see The Rape of Proserpina ( Bernini ) ) in painting ( D. G. Rossetti, a fresco by Pomarancio, J. Heintz, A. Durer, Dell ' Abbate, M. Parrish ) and in literature ( Goethe's Proserpina and Swinburne's Hymn to Proserpine and The Garden of Proserpine ) The statue of the Rape of Prosepina by Pluto that stands in the Great Garden ( more correctly, Großer Garten ) of Dresden, Germany is also referred to as " Time Ravages Beauty ".

Chantrey also crafted a large statue of Dalton, now in the Manchester Town Hall.

The famous coach Joe Paterno also had the statue of him, and the backwall to it removed, along with the record of his victories from 1998 through 2011 vacated.