Sentence examples for colossal statues from inspiring English sources

When he is not making colossal statues, he has colossal visions, which he paints in acrylics.

After Kadesh, Moses returns to Egypt, where Jewish slaves are working away on some monuments, colossal statues and a pyramid.

In 1811 he completed two colossal statues of Napoleon, in which the emperor is shown as a heroic classical nude.

The four colossal statues of Ramses in front of the main temple are spectacular examples of ancient Egyptian art.

For example, it was he who issued the edict to destroy the colossal statues of Buddha at Bamiyan.

Portraits had existed before the 15th century, of course: just think of the Pharaohs with their colossal statues, the busts of the Roman emperors or the painted faces of donors in medieval altar pieces.

A colossal statue of a pharaoh, weighing about nine tons, sits regally on the north side.

Christ the Redeemer, Portuguese Cristo Redentor, colossal statue of Jesus Christ at the summit of Mount Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil.

A colossal statue of a pharaoh weighing more than nine tons is heading to the Met by ship from Germany.

In the 18th Egyptian dynasty, a colossal statue of Memnon, a mythic Ethiopian king, was erected at Thebes.

This related that despite the proud words (which it repeated) on the colossal statue, no trace, save perhaps one "prostrate fragment", now remained.