Statues On Stamps

Sri Lanka
High Denomination Definitive Issue
September 24, 2008
The design is based on one of the relief stone statues of lion in the ancient city of Anuradhapura (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

Thailand
Anniversary of the Asian-Oceanic Postal Union
April 1, 1963
The design features one of the 12 bronze statues of Khmer lion guarding the Royal Temple of Emerald Buddha.

India
Millennium of Gommateshwara
February 9, 1981
Gommateshwara Statue is a 17-meter high monolithic statue located at Shravanabelagola in the Indian state of Karnataka. The statue is dedicated to the Jain god, Bahubali. It was built in 981 A.D. and is one of the largest free standing statues in the world.

Japan
Definitive Issue 1966 - 1971
Miroku Bosatsu Statue at Chugu Temple
The Miroku Bosatsu Statue at Chugu Temple, Nara, is one of the best-known treasures of Japanese art. The statue, 87 cm in height, is carved from Japanese camphor wood in the Asuka Period (538 - 710 A.D.)
The statue depicts the Miroku Bosatsu contemplating saving the world symbolized by the carved halo behind him.

South Korea
5000 Years of Korean Art
April 1, 1979
The gilt-bronze pensive Maitreya statue (National Treasure No. 83) is the work of the Silla Kingdom in the early 7th Century. The statue is made of bronze and was at one point plated in gold. It is 93.5 cm tall and is incredibly valuable because few large bronzes survived from that period. The statue is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest Buddhist sculptures ever produced and is a masterpiece of Korean art.

France
National Museum
August 20, 1937
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). The Parian marble statue was sculped by Pythokritos of Lindos during ca. 200 – 190 B.C. Despite its significant damage and incompleteness, the Victory is held to be one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Hellenistic Period, and from the entire Greco-Roman era.

DDR (Germany)
Art From The State Museums, Berlin
April 19, 1983
Athena from the Library of Pergamon is a Hellenistic marble copy (ca. 200 - 150 B.C.) of the 5th century B.C. colossal gold and ivory Athena Parthenos statue by the Greek sculptor Pheidias, which stood in the Athenian Parthenon.
The marble statue was found in the Library of Pergamon in Pergamon, Turkey and is now in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

Greece
50th Anniversary of the United Nations
June 21, 1995
The statue of Eirene and Ploutos was a bronze statue by Cephisodotus the Elder, at ca. 375 - 371 B.C., which stood on the Agora in Athens. Marble copies of the statue were made by the Romans. The statue depicts Eirene (or Irene), the Goddess of Peace and the season of Spring, holding the infant Ploutos, the god of plenty and son of Demeter. The statue is an allegory for peace and prosperity.

Greece
Olympic Games 1972 - Munich
July 28, 1972
Spartan Female Athlete is a Greek bronze statuette of a running girl. It is 11.4 cm high and dates to about 500 B.C. The girl is dressed exactly as Pausanias describes the girls in the running events at Olympia. The Spartans encouraged women to take part in sports because they believed that mothers who were tough and strong would produce good Spartan soldiers.

Greece
Olympic Games 1972 - Munich
July 28, 1972
Young athlete enclosing crown is a 0.59 m-high marble attic relief sculpture from Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion at around 470 B.C. The statue is at National Archaeological Museum Athens.

Greece
Ancient Art Series I
January 15, 1954
Moschophoros (Calf-Bearer) is an ancient Greek statue found in the Perserschutt in the Acropolis of Athens. The 1.65-m marble statue, dated ca. 560 B.C., is currently housed in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The statue was a votive offering to the goddess Athena dedicated by Rhonbos, son of Palos.

Cyprus
Definitive Issue - Aphrodite of Cyprus
November 21, 1966
Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess who represented beauty and love. The statue of Aphrodite found at Soloi is a marble statue dates to the Hellenistic period, 1st Century B.C.

Vatican
Art Collection
November 10, 1983
Statue of the Good Shepherd at the Pio Cristiano Museum is a marble sculpture dated to ca. 330 A.D. The 92 cm high statue is an important symbol of ancient Christianity.

Vatican
Founder Saint Statues in St. Peter's Basilica
October 3, 1995
The St. John of God (1495 - 1550) was one of the 39 Saints who founded religious congregations. The marble statue is the work of Filippo Della Valle (1698 - 1768).

Spain
400th Anniversary of the Passing of Alonso Berruguete
July 9, 1962
Alonso González de Berruguete (c. 1488 – 1561) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect. He is considered to be the most important sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance, and is known for his emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or torment.
One of the stamps in this commemorative set shows his wood carving Martirio de San Sebastian (1526).