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It is known worldwide for the 38-metre ( 125 ft ) statue of Jesus atop its peak, entitled Cristo Redentor or " Christ the Redeemer ".

A statue of Poseidon stood atop the tower during the Roman period.

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

The tall bronze statue depicts a uniformed Patton raising a pair of binoculars up to his eyes, atop a pink granite base.

In gratitude Smaragdus erected in the Roman Forum a gilded statue atop the rededicated " Column of Phocas ", which featured a new inscription on its base in the Emperor's honour.

It is recognizable by its distinctive pioneer statue atop the capitol dome that is plated with gold-leaf and officially named the Oregon Pioneer.

* A bronze equestrian sculpture of Houston is located in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas This statue depicts Houston atop his horse with a single hand out stretched pointing directly towards San Jacinto.

Unlike most works of public art, Kaskey has put strong prohibitions on the use of images of the statue, located atop the main entrance to the famous Portland Building.

The golden statue atop the dome is Laetitia, the Roman Goddess of Gaiety and was an original fixture back in 1910.

* Built in 1975, a statue of Lafayette stands atop a fountain in the courthouse square in LaGrange, Georgia.

An expressive bronze statue atop a granite plinth, the monument was unveiled in 1980.

The wooden carved statue of Sally Grant sits atop of the Brockville Court House

The famous " Madonnina " atop the main spire of the cathedral, a baroque gilded bronze statue

He is commemorated by Grey's Monument in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, which consists of a statue of Lord Grey standing atop a high column.

Moretti designed the world's largest cast iron statue, of the Roman god Vulcan ( 56 ft or 17 m ), which stands atop Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama ( USA ).

A local secondary school – St Helena's – is named after her, and her statue is atop the town hall, although local legend is that it was originally a statue of Blessed Virgin Mary which was later fitted with a cross.

Late in 1863, construction of the dome was sufficiently advanced for the installation of the statue, which was hoisted by slaves in sections and assembled atop the cast-iron pedestal.

The square has a war memorial as its centrepiece-The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier-which shows the statue of a soldier atop a plinth.

King Charles himself disliked the idea of a statue of himself atop the monument, pointing out " I didn't start the fire ", and instead preferred a simple copper-gilded ball " with flames sprouting from the top ", costing a little over £ 325, but ultimately it was the design of a flaming gilt-bronze urn suggested by Robert Hooke that was chosen.

It was at this last reconstruction that a statue of St. Michael was placed atop the tower.

Identical statue atop war memorial in Paulhan, France

The statue shows Hodge sitting next to a pair of empty oyster shells atop a copy of Johnson's famous dictionary, with the inscription " a very fine cat indeed ".

Another statue, although not life-sized, can be found in San Bruno at The Shops at Tanforan, a shopping mall built upon a former racetrack.

File: Southpoint Mall Statue. JPG | A statue in the mall

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.

And the man who brought sweet potatoes into Kanto is buried there, next to a beautiful seated statue of Fudo.

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

A fine example is the statue of the Sacred gate Kouros which was found at the cemetery of Dipylon in Athens ( Dipylon Kouros ).

The statue is the " thing in itself ", and his slender face with the deep eyes express an intellectual eternity.

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.

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.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

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

The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's " Fighting 69th " Infantry Regiment ; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.