Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.

A great bronze statue of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot ( furnished with scythes after the Persian fashion ) was commissioned by Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft.

Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel was now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stood guard over the city she razed to the ground.

Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.

A statue of Eliot is in Newdegate Street, Nuneaton, and Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery has a display of material related to her.

The statue represents the seminal moment in Keller's life when she understood her first word: W-A-T-E-R, as signed into her hand by teacher Anne Sullivan.

On 26 September 2006, a statue of Maria Feodorovna was unveiled near her favourite Cottage Palace in Peterhof.

In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas's daughter turns to a statue when he touches her.

She traveled to Washington, D. C. in June 2009 to unveil a statue of her late husband in the Capitol Rotunda.

The Chronicon of Adam of Usk ( 1404 ) gives her a name, Agnes, and furthermore mentions a statue in Rome that is said to be of her.

According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 and Cicero records that a statue of her stood in the town-hall of Syracuse.

A statue of Saint Agnes in a parish dedicated to her in Camarin, Caloocan City, Philippines.

The erected statue does rise over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground.

Ajax the Lesser raped Cassandra on Athena's altar while she was clinging to her statue.

Many fortune tellers used her effigy and statue, presumably for purposes of association marketing.

Only two survive, one near her birthplace in Knaresborough and the other in Portsmouth where there is a lifesize statue above the door.

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

Butterfly then kneels before the statue of Buddha and prays to her ancestral gods.

When these daughters arrived at the age of maturity, they were stricken with madness, the cause of which is differently stated by different authors ; some say that it was a punishment inflicted upon them by Dionysus, because they had despised his worship, and according to others, by Hera, because they presumed to consider themselves more beautiful than the goddess, or because they had stolen some of the gold off her statue.

Therese of Lisieux emerged as one of the most popular saints for Catholics in the 20th century, and a statue of her can be found in many European and North American Catholic churches built prior to the Second Vatican Council ( after which the number of statues tended to be reduced when churches were built ).

Bronze Statue of Queen Elizabeth on The Mall, London, overlooked by the statue of her husband King George VI

In 1899, Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster, facing Whitehall and there, presumably, he still stands.

* A statue of Alexander Fleming stands outside the main bullring in Madrid, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.

A statue of him stands there today.

* A statue of Béla Bartók stands in Brussels, Belgium near the central train station in a public square, Spanjeplein-Place d ' Espagne.

* A statue stands outside Malvern Court, south of South Kensington Underground Station, and just north of 7 Sydney Place, where he stayed when performing in London.

Pictures of Casey and the pitcher from the Disney animated adaptation are hanging on the walls, and a life-size statue of a baseball player identified as " Casey " stands just outside the restaurant.

Outside the centre stands a bronze statue of Thomas, by John Doubleday.

A statue of George dressed in classical robes stands in Neville Street, Newcastle, facing the building that houses the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Mining Institute, and near to Newcastle railway station.

His statue stands today in the Crypt of Heroes beneath the Column of Independence in Mexico City.

The proceeds went towards a statue of William Shakespeare for Central Park, which still stands today.

The bronze statue that stands in the United States Capitol

In January 2002, the partially nude female statue of the Spirit of Justice, which stands in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, where Ashcroft held press conferences, was covered with blue curtains, along with its male counterpart, the Majesty of Law.

A statue of Louis IX stands in the lower chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.

A statue of St. Louis by the sculptor John Donoghue stands on the roofline of the New York State Appellate Division Court at 27 Madison Avenue in New York City.

The Apotheosis of St. Louis is an equestrian statue of the saint, by Charles Henry Niehaus, that stands in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.

A statue of Moses smiting the rock stands in Washington Park Historic District ( Albany, New York ) | Washington Park, Albany, New York.

In the Library of Congress stands a large statue of Moses alongside a statue of the Apostle Paul.

* A statue of Minerva stands in the entrance to Main Building at Wells College in Aurora, NY.

* A statue of Minerva stands atop the dome of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland.

* A seven foot statue of Minerva stands at the highest point in Brooklyn, overlooking New York Harbor, located in Green-Wood Cemetery.

A statue commemorating the men now stands between the home plate entrance to Miller Park and Helfaer Field.

A statue of Abel stands in Oslo, and crater Abel on the Moon was named after him.

A 1932 statue of Webster by Korczak Ziółkowski stands in front of the public library of West Hartford, Connecticut.

A statue of a dwarf, dedicated to the memory of the movement, stands today on Świdnicka Street in Wrocław, in the place where events took place.