Statues

thumb|Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial)|Abraham Lincoln statue, [[Lincoln Memorial (1920)]] A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal, glass, marble, or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size. A sculpture that represents persons or animals in full figure, but that is small enough to lift and carry is a statuette or figurine, whilst those that are more than twice life-size are regarded as colossal statues.

thumb|upright|Chinese ceramics|Chinese porcelain blanc de Chine figure of [[Guanyin, Ming dynasty]] A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with clay, metal, wood, glass, and today plastic or resin the most significant. Ceramic figurines not made of porcelain are called terracottas in historical contexts.

a statue which has been claimed to have shed tears or to be weeping by supernatural means

monument in Dar es Salaam

monument in Cotonou, Benin