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Statue

Statue: a freestanding three-dimensional sculpture of a complete human or animal figure, usually life-size or larger, in wood, bronze, or stone; distinct from statuettes, busts, and abstract sculpture.

Statue of Baphomet

Bronze Baphomet statue created by The Satanic Temple (also Baphomet monument) as a constitutional counter-proposal to Ten Commandments monuments; unveiled in Detroit in 2015, blocked in Oklahoma and Arkansas, displayed at the Salem Art Gallery.

Statue of Chalchiuhtlicue

Statues of Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec water goddess whose name means "she of the jade skirt," range from small portable figures to a colossal 3.19-meter andesite monolith in Mexico City's National Museum of Anthropology.

Statue of Charlie Kirk

Statues of Charlie Kirk (1993-2025), the slain Turning Point USA co-founder: Sergio Furnari's $100,000 life-size steel-and-resin statue unveiled in Times Square on September 10, 2026, the vandalized Phoenix headquarters statue, and proposed campus memorial laws.

Statue of Corvo

Statue of Corvo (cavaleiro do Corvo): legendary lost stone equestrian statue on Corvo island, Azores, described by Damião de Góis in 1567, removed under Manuel I and broken; not a raven monument.

Statue of Dolly Parton

The Statue of Dolly Parton is a life-size bronze of the singer seated barefoot with her guitar on the Sevier County Courthouse lawn in Sevierville, Tennessee, unveiled in 1987.

Statue of Freedom

Statue of Freedom, also called Armed Freedom, bronze statue by Thomas Crawford topping the U.S. Capitol Dome since 1863; 19 ft 6 in tall, cast by Clark Mills with enslaved craftsman Philip Reid.

Statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant

Bronze statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant unveiled August 2, 2024, outside Crypto.com Arena; second of three planned Kobe Bryant statues, depicting the pair courtside at a December 2019 Lakers game.

Statue of Kobe Bryant

Statue of Kobe Bryant: 19-foot, 4,000-pound bronze at Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena, unveiled February 8, 2024, first of three planned Lakers statues, depicting his 81-point game pose, sculpted by Julie Rotblatt Amrany.

Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal copper sculpture by Bartholdi with an Eiffel iron framework, a French gift dedicated in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886, later an immigration symbol.

Statue of Union

The Statue of Union is a 90-foot bronze statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, Texas, unveiled in 2024.

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a colossal gold and ivory cult statue by Phidias, made around 435 BCE and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Stavelot Triptych

The Stavelot Triptych is a Mosan reliquary of the True Cross, made in the Meuse valley around 1156 to 1158 and held at the Morgan Library in New York.

Steal Like an Artist

Steal Like an Artist (subtitle: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative) is Austin Kleon's 2012 Workman-published New York Times bestseller arguing no idea is original; over a million copies, 30+ languages, part of a trilogy.

Ștefan Luchian

Ștefan Luchian (1868–1916) was a Romanian post-impressionist painter, a disciple of Nicolae Grigorescu best known for his flower paintings, which he continued after paralysis by tying the brush to his wrist.

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962, Bregenz) is an Austrian graphic designer in New York since 1991, known for album art for Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones.

Stele

Stele (plural stelae), from Greek stēlē: an upright inscribed or relief-carved slab used as a funerary, votive, boundary, or decree monument in Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, and China.

Stella Maxwell

Stella Maxwell (born 1991, Belgium) is a Belgian-born, New Zealand-raised fashion model, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2015, known for Chanel and Versace runway work, Max Factor and Calvin Klein campaigns, and LGBTQIA+ advocacy.

Stephanie Phillips

Stephanie Phillips (Stephanie Nicole Phillips), American comic book writer active since 2019, known for DC's Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman: Evolution, Grim at BOOM!, Marvel's Phoenix and the 2026 Daredevil run with Lee Garbett; holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition.

Stephanie Seymour

Stephanie Seymour (Stephanie Michelle Seymour), born 1968 in San Diego, is an American supermodel of the 1990s: original Victoria's Secret Angel, Alaïa and Avedon muse, Estée Lauder spokesmodel, and 2019 Versace runway closer.

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore, born 1947 in New York City, is an American photographer known for pioneering color photography as a fine art through his 1970s series American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, which documented everyday North American life.

Stephen Wacker

Stephen Wacker (b. 1970, St. Louis), also Steve Wacker, American comics editor: DC's 52, Marvel senior editor for Brand New Day, Superior Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, later Marvel animation, 3W3M, Stone Kite, and Marvel Editor-in-Chief.

Stephen Wiltshire

Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist and MBE (2006), draws city panoramas from memory after brief viewing; Tokyo 10-metre eight-day panorama, Empire State Building observatory design, autism diagnosed at three.

Stereograph

A stereograph is a card bearing two nearly identical photographs that fuse into a single three-dimensional image when viewed through a stereoscope, popular from 1870 to 1920.

Sterling St. Jacques

Sterling St. Jacques (Sterling Saint Jacques, reportedly Sterling Colter) was an American model, dancer, singer, and actor, regarded as the first Black male supermodel; he walked at Versailles 1973, modeled for Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, and Halston, and was a Studio 54 fixture.

Steve Canyon

Steve Canyon: American adventure newspaper comic strip by Milton Caniff (1947–1988), creator-owned successor to Terry and the Pirates, about an Air Force aviator; reached ~400 papers, 30 million readers, and a 1958 TV series.

Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko (1927–2018), American comic book artist and co-creator with Stan Lee of Marvel's Spider-Man and Doctor Strange; also created Mr A, The Question, the Creeper, Hawk and Dove, and Shade; famously reclusive, no interviews after 1968; his estate settled a 2023 Marvel copyright suit.

Steve Gerber

Steve Gerber (1947-2008), American comic book writer, creator of Marvel's Howard the Duck and Omega the Unknown; wrote Defenders and Man-Thing; sued Marvel in 1978 in a landmark creator-rights case; also wrote Thundarr the Barbarian and DC's Hard Time.

Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel (born 1954, New York) is an American fashion photographer, Vogue Italia's cover photographer 1988–2016 under Franca Sozzani, discoverer of supermodels including Linda Evangelista, and subject of the 2023 Phaidon monograph.

Stick figure

A stick figure, also called a matchstick figure, is a simple drawing of a person with a circle head and line body, arms, and legs, found from prehistoric rock art to internet animation.