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The Daibutsu, a large bronze statue of the Great Buddha, sits outdoors surrounded by trees at Kamakura, Japan, with visitors visible near its base.

Colossus of Rhodes

“Cristo Redentor,” also called “Christ of the Andes,” by Mateo Alonso, 1902; in the Uspallata Pass on the border between Argentina and Chile, roughly equidistant from Santiago, Chile, and Mendoza, Arg. Dedicated in 1904, the statue commemorates a number of treaties between Chile and Argentina.

Stone face of the Colossus of Ramesses II wearing a tall crown and false beard at the Temple of Luxor in Thebes, Egypt.

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Antonio Canova: Three Graces

Antonio Canova, marchese d’Ischia

Italian sculptor

Phidias

Phidias

Greek sculptor

Gutzon Borglum

Gutzon Borglum

American sculptor

Bacchus

Jacopo Sansovino

Italian sculptor

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Bertel Thorvaldsen

Danish sculptor

Crawford, Thomas: The Babes in the Wood

Thomas Crawford

American sculptor

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Unkei

Japanese sculptor