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Monuments and Monumental Statuary

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https://flic.kr/p/bx3fA1 | Statue of Alexander the Great riding Bucephalus and carrying a winged statue of Nike (square of Alexander the Great) in Pella city

Statue labelled as Alexander the Great, but representing the god Apollo instead. It comes from the Etruscan Sanctuary of Scasato di Falerii Veteres, late 4th century BC. Museum Villa Giulia, Rome

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Heroes of the pre christian era and 1000 AD

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Villanova de la Barca. Lleida . Spain A Monument commemorating the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War 1936 - !939

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Aeronautical

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Trace the life Alexander the Great in Greece - featured in the FT How to Spend it magazine

Equestrian

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Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria by СмdяСояd, via Flickr ( monument is placed where the final battle between Bulgarian rebels led by Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha[1] and the Ottoman Empire happened

Tank Battle at Dukla – WWII Battle in East Slovakia Featured at Svidnik Museum

Spomenik for the Battle of Drazgose, Slovenia (1976 )

Battles

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"Mourning Mothers" sculpture at Mamayev Kurgan, Volvograd (Stalingrad), Russia [500x694]

Commissioned by former Yugoslavian president, Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place, these now forgotten structures stand empty and without the significance it once had decades ago. Designed by different sculptors and architects, the strong and powerful blending of art and architecture come together in these monuments to convey the sense of confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic.

Memorial complex Defenders of the Fatherland sky at the entrance to the city of Tula.

Second World War

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Памятник Ленину в Латвии. Lenin’s monument in Latvia.

A bas-relief depicting Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin on a dam at the Kirov Reservoir in the Talas region of western Kyrgyzstan on September 4, 2017.

A woman walks past a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on October 31, 2017

Political Leaders & Monarchs

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Monument of M. Kutuzov. Sculptor G. I. Motovilov, architect L. M. Poliakov. The monument is disposed in the public garden in the beginning of the Sovietskaya street, and it was installed in 1954. You can see the bronze figure of M. Kutuzov (4 m) in classical pose with sword in his right deflated hand on the granite pedestal by height 3.15 m. On card face of the pedestal there is a board with the inscription: "To the great russian military leader Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, prince Smolenskij"

Commemorative

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Gallery of The Tallest Statue in the World is Completed in India - 2

Forgotten Communist Monoliths of Bulgaria | Atlas Obscura

Political Ideologies

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Spanish-American War Memorial, Dolores Street, San Francisco, California. Called California Volunteers, this bronze sculpture by Douglas Tilden, shows an American soldier, with pointed gun in one hand and a sword in the other, standing over a fallen comrade, a cannon nearby. Above them the goddess of war, Bellona, is astride the winged horse Pegasus.

First World War

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Monument to the Defenders of the Coast (Pomnik Obrońców Wybrzeża) in Westerplatte, Gdańsk, Poland.

(Just outside Dyers building) The Royal Fusiliers Monument. Grade II listed. Erected in 1922 + dedicated to the nearly 22,000 soldiers of The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) who died during WWI. It stands at Holborn Bar, one of the ancient entry points to the City of London. The bronze statue was designed by Albert Toft, with Cheadle & Harding as architects. Said to be modelled on a Sergeant Cox, who served throughout WWI. unveiled by the Lord Mayor of London at 1430, Saturday 4 Novemb

War Memorials

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The 10m pedestal that the statue stands on was designed to look like an ancient warship

The Jingzhou city, Hubei province in China can boast now with absolutely enormous statue of the ancient Chinese god and warrior Guan Yu. The stunning sculpture will attract thousands of tourists and locals to praise and behold its glory. The 48 meter tall sculpture stands proudly on the 10 meter ped…

Religious

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Estatua em homenagem a Pele na estrada Fernão Dias perto da cidade de Três Corações. Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Sports

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Monument of M. Kutuzov. Sculptor G. I. Motovilov, architect L. M. Poliakov. The monument is disposed in the public garden in the beginning of the Sovietskaya street, and it was installed in 1954. You can see the bronze figure of M. Kutuzov (4 m) in classical pose with sword in his right deflated hand on the granite pedestal by height 3.15 m. On card face of the pedestal there is a board with the inscription: "To the great russian military leader Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, prince Smolenskij"

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Gallery of The Tallest Statue in the World is Completed in India - 2

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50ft statue "dignity" goes up in South Dakota yesterday. Honoring the Lakota and the Dakota tribes that are indigenous to that area

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Monument to the Defenders of the Coast (Pomnik Obrońców Wybrzeża) in Westerplatte, Gdańsk, Poland.

(Just outside Dyers building) The Royal Fusiliers Monument. Grade II listed. Erected in 1922 + dedicated to the nearly 22,000 soldiers of The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) who died during WWI. It stands at Holborn Bar, one of the ancient entry points to the City of London. The bronze statue was designed by Albert Toft, with Cheadle & Harding as architects. Said to be modelled on a Sergeant Cox, who served throughout WWI. unveiled by the Lord Mayor of London at 1430, Saturday 4 Novemb

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Memento Park was set up after the fall of the communist regime in Hungary, as a place to showcase 42 of the sculptures that were spread around Budapest during the Soviet era. There are statues of Lenin, Engels, and Marx and many other statues that celebrate communism, the workers and other socialist ideals. Human Sculpture, Sculptures, My House In Budapest, Budapest Guide, Oppressed People, Thing 1, Weekends Away, Budapest Hungary, King Jr

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Memento Park was set up after the fall of the communist regime in Hungary, as a place to showcase 42 of the sculptures that were spread around Budapest during the Soviet era. There are statues of Lenin, Engels, and Marx and many other statues that celebrate communism, the workers and other socialist ideals.

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Памятник Ленину в Латвии. Lenin’s monument in Latvia.

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https://flic.kr/p/bx3fA1 | Statue of Alexander the Great riding Bucephalus and carrying a winged statue of Nike (square of Alexander the Great) in Pella city

Statue labelled as Alexander the Great, but representing the god Apollo instead. It comes from the Etruscan Sanctuary of Scasato di Falerii Veteres, late 4th century BC. Museum Villa Giulia, Rome