The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

Howard's son later admitted that his father had carved the statue himself.

This statue of Bahubali is carved from a single large stone that is fifty-seven feet high.

Authentic Yoruba carved and painted wood tribal statue of a " cock fight " Miao ( i. e. Hmong ) are animists, shamanists and ancestor worshipers with beliefs being affected in varying degrees by Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity.

Another important temple is the Jade Buddha Temple, which is named after a large statue of Buddha carved out of jade in the temple.

A more famous momument, a full-faced statue carved in rock mentioned by Pausanias is a statue of Cybele, said by Pausianias to have been carved by Broteas is in fact Hittite.

This statue was carved by German sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter.

* Roman section, with a statue of Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, carved sarcophagi and two Roman beds with fine decorations in ivory

The month before, the bronze equestrian statue of Charles, on a pedestal of carved Portland stone was given Grade I listed protection.

The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble: one block for the nude torso, another block for the draped legs, another block apiece for each arm, another small block for the left foot, another block for the inscribed plinth, and finally, the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.

The Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck () contains the wooden statue of St. Paul the Apostle carved in 1657 by Melchiorre Gafà, brother of Lorenzo Gafà who renovated the church in 1680.

The other statue of Saint Bonaventure was carved from wood and then painted.

The reredos behind the main altar features a painting of Christ, a statue of Saint Joseph, and two carved figures: a dove represents the Holy Spirit, and at the top sits God the Father with detailed golden rays surrounding him.

The lingga statue has a dedicated inscription carved from top to bottom representing a vein followed by a chronogram date equivalent to 1440.

Commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1808 and finished in 1832 a statue of Adonis is one of the few works in marble carved solely by Thorvaldsen's own hand, and at the same time it is one of the works that is closest to the antique Greek ideals.

By the 16th century the Extremadura Guadalupe, a statue of the Virgin said to be carved by Saint Luke the Evangelist, was already a national icon.

The following epigram by Poseidippos was carved on the statue:

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.

The association of white poplar leaves with Herakles is also attested by archaeological remains, such as the poplar-leaf motif carved on a statue base found in a small sanctuary to Herakles ( Roman Hercules ) along the Tiber river.

He carved a statue of the Virgin and Child for the west door of the chapel at Marlborough College.

The interior of the upper reading-room houses a six foot marble statue of John Radcliffe, carved by John Michael Rysbrack.

The recently restored Sicilian marble statue of John Gray ( Irish politician ) | Sir John Gray, designed by Thomas Farrell and erected in 1879.

Both plinth and statue carved entirely of white Sicilian marble, it was unveiled in 1879.

A statue of him now stands in Lister Park, in Heaton, Bradford, sculpted by Matthew Noble from a block of white Sicilian marble and unveiled on Saturday 15 May 1875 by W. E. Forster, then Member of Parliament for Bradford.

A feature of the building ( and until recently of all buildings owned by the AMP Society ) is a three figure statue above the portico entrance of the Queen Street façade of the building, sculptured in Sicilian marble by Fred Gowan, representing: " Strength, Plenty, Production and Growth ".

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.

Canova's marble statue George Washington was commissioned by the State of North Carolina after the war of 1812 to be displayed in its Capitol Building.

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

* the marble statue Leda with the Swan in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.

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

The Diana of Versailles a 2nd-Century marble statue of Diana, copied from an earlier Greek original.

This marble statue of a youth on horseback is believed to represent a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

There is a life-sized marble statue of Leda and the Swan at the Jai Vilas Palace Museum in Gwalior, Northern Madhya Pradesh, India.

* The Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, features a Roman marble statue of Minerva in its 4th floor atrium.

Between 1493 and 1494 he bought a block of marble for a larger than life statue of Hercules, which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared sometime circa 18th century.

To give two examples, the marble statue of Cristo della Minerva ( church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome ) was covered by added drapery, as it remains today, and the statue of the naked child Jesus in Madonna of Bruges ( The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium ) remained covered for several decades.

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.

* Gladstone, Queensland, Australia was named after him and has a 19th century marble statue on display in its town museum.

Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world's largest collection of marble statues and has a widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina ( the little Madonna ), that became one of the symbols of the city.

The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, commissioned some time between 230 BC – 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians

It is a marble statue of a standing male nude.

** Colossus of Constantine, a giant bronze and marble statue of Constantine the Great

A famous example is the marble statue of Hermes with the infant Dionysus in Olympia by Praxiteles.

* The state of Indiana commissioned a marble statue of Wallace dressed in a military uniform, which was made by the sculptor Andrew O ' Connor.

It houses a marble statue of the Madonna of Trapani, which might be the work of Nino Pisano, and with the museum Agostino Pepoli.

The centrepiece of the gardens is a marble statue on a high pedestal, of the mortally wounded Achilles ( Greek: Αχιλλεύς Θνήσκων, Achilleús Thnēskōn, Achilles Dying ) without hubris and wearing only a simple cloth and an ancient Greek hoplite helmet.

Thucydides devotes several chapters to their conflict with Athens, and there is a famous marble statue, Paeonius Victory-dedicated by the people of Naupactus and Messenia and now in the museum of Ancient Olympia.