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[[Image:Auguste Rodin - Grubleren 2005-02.jpg|thumb|right|[[Auguste Rodin]], ''[[The Thinker]],'' Bronze, c.1902, [[Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek]] in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]]]
A '''statue''' is a [[sculpture]] in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]], and at least close to life-size, or larger.<ref>See [[Oxford English Dictionary]]</ref> Its primary concern is representational.
The definition of a statue is not always clear-cut; sculptures of a person on a horse, called [[Equestrian sculpture|Equestrian statues]], are certainly included, and in many cases, such as a [[Madonna and Child]] or a [[Pietà]], a sculpture of two people will also be. A small statue, usually small enough to be picked up, is called a '''statuette'''.
Many statues are built on commission to commemorate a historical event, or the [[life]] of an influential person. Many statues are intended as [[public art]], exhibited outdoors or in public buildings for the edification of passers-by, with a larger magnitude than normal words could ever have for the common man.
On rare occasions, statues themselves become historic and inspire their own historic events. In 1986, when the [[Statue of Liberty]] marked her one-hundredth anniversary, a three-day centennial celebration in her honor attracted 12 million, said to have been the largest public event in the world as of that date{{Fact|date=June 2007}}. The guest list was unique. "We invited all the great statues of the world to her birthday party and created giant puppets to represent them," said [[Jeanne Fleming]], director of the event. "Each one arrived accompanied by native music."
There is an [[urban legend]] concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end. One hoof off the floor would indicate the rider died of wounds received in battle, or perhaps was just wounded in battle; two hooves off the floor would indicate the rider was killed in battle. An examination of the equestrian statues in most major European cities shows this is not true. If it ever was true, the practice appears to have died out in the 19th century. [http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm][http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_074.html]
Statues are amongst the wonders of the world, with the [[Colossus of Rhodes]] and the [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia]] among the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]] and the [[Moai]] of [[Easter Island]] among the wonders of the modern world.
==Gallery==
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Image:Great Sphinx Closeup.JPG|[[The Great Sphinx]] at [[Giza]], [[3rd millennium BC]], [[Egypt]]
Image:Gudea of Lagash Girsu.jpg|[[Statues of Gudea]], Diorite statue, c.2100 BC, the [[Louvre]]
Image:Colossi_of_Memnon.jpg|[[Colossi of Memnon]], ''[[Amenhotep III]]'s Sitting Colossi,'' 14th century BC
Image:S F-E-CAMERON 2006-10-EGYPT-WESTBANK-0153.JPG|[[Osiris|Osirian statues]] of [[Hatshepsut]] at her tomb, associated with [[Osiris]], c.1258 BC
Image:Venus de Milo Louvre Ma399 n4.jpg|[[Venus de Milo]], [[Culture of Greece|Greek]], the [[Louvre]]
Image:Ac.nike.jpg|''The [[Winged Victory of Samothrace]],'' Greek, 220-190 [[Before Christ|BC]]
Image:Laocoon Pio-Clementino Inv1059-1064-1067.jpg|''[[Laocoön and his Sons]],'' Greek, (Late [[Hellenistic art|Hellenistic]]), [[circa]] 160 BC and 20 BC, [[White marble]], [[Vatican Museum]]
Image:AhuTongariki.JPG|''[[Moai]] of [[Easter Island]] facing inland,'' [[Ahu Tongariki]], c. 1250 - 1500 [[AD]], restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s
Image:Kamakura Budda Daibutsu front 1885.jpg|[[Kōtoku-in|The Great Buddha of Kamakura]], c. 1252, [[Kamakura, Japan|Japan]]
Image:SFEC BritMus Asia 021.JPG|Chinese [[glaze]]d [[stoneware]] statue of a [[Daoist]] deity, [[Ming Dynasty]], 16th century
Image:David von Michelangelo.jpg|[[Michelangelo's David|Michelangelo's ''David'']], 1504, [[Florence, Italy]]
Image:The.burg.of.calais.london.arp.750pix.jpg|[[Auguste Rodin]], ''[[The Burghers of Calais]]'' (1884–c. 1889) in [[Victoria Tower Gardens]], [[London, England]].
Image:Statofliberty.jpg|''[[The Statue of Liberty]],'' [[New York]] [[Harbor]], [[USA]], c.1886
Image:Chopin denkmal wwa.jpeg|[[Wacław Szymanowski]], Statue of ''[[Frédéric Chopin]],'' [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]], 1926
Image:Brasil.RioDeJaneiro.Corcovado.jpg|''[[Christ the Redeemer]],'' [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]], 1931
Image:IwoJimaMemArlington.JPG|[[USMC War Memorial|U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial]], located in [[Arlington, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]], 1954
Image:Pepsistatue0.jpg|[[George Segal (artist)|George Segal]]'s ''Three People on Four Benches,'' 1979
Image:JoaoCabral-Recife.jpg|[[João Cabral de Melo Neto]] in [[Recife]], [[Brazil]]
Image:marcus.aurelius.horse.statue.rome.arp.jpg|A closeup of the replica statue of [[Roman Emperor]], [[Marcus Aurelius]], 1981, The original c. 200 AD is in the nearby [[Capitoline Museum]], [[Rome]]
Image:Ushiku Daibutsu 2006.jpg|The [[Ushiku Daibutsu]], [[Amitabha Buddha]], 1995, [[Japan]]. The second tallest statue in the world.
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== See also ==
* [[Bust (Sculpture)|Bust]]
* [[Colossus (statue)|Colossus]]
* [[Living statue]]
* [[Memorial]]
* [[Monument]]
* [[Sculpture]]
* [[Stone carving]]
* [[Stone sculpture]]
* [[History of sculpture]]
* [[Bronze sculpture]]
* [[Equestrian sculpture]]
* [[List of statues]]
* [[List of statues by height]]
* [[The Thinker]]
* [[Statues of Gudea]], c.2100 BC
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/index.htm UK Public Monument and Sculpture Association]
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