Statues On Stamps

Myanmar Bronze Statue

Austria
The 50th Anniversary of EUROPA
March 3, 2006
The design features Statue of Europe by Roger Louis Chavanon (1941 - ) at Grasse, France.

United Nations Vienna
Definitive Issue - Statues
January 28, 2008
The Johann Strauss Monument consists a gilded bronze statue of Johann Strauss II framed by a marble relief made by Edmund von Hellmer (1850 - 1935). It is one of the many monuments in the City Park (Stadtpark)of Vienna.

United Nations Vienna
Definitive Issue - Statues
January 28, 2008
The Belvedere is an historic building complex in Vienna, consisting of two Baroque palaces (the Upper and Lower Belvedere) and a garden in between. Two stone statues of Sphinx stand at the garden side of the main entrance to the Upper Belvedere. The female beasts with human head and lion's body are symbols of wisdom and strength.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a detail from an equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslaus I (aka Vaclav the Good, c. 907-935), Duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination, designed by Jan Kavan, line drawing by Vaclav Fajt, printed by lithography, and issued by Czech Republic on July 13, 2013, plus an image of a photo of the statue detail taken from a similar angle. Saint Wenceslaus is the patron saint of Bohemia, Czech Republic, and Prague.

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Portugal
Portuguese Sculptures
August 18, 1993
A Viúva(The Widow) (1893) is a life-size marble statue by António Teixeira Lopes (1866 - 1942). The masterpiece shows a mother with her son in a cradle.

Germany
Tourism
February 15, 1990
The Brunswick Lion is a monument and probably the best-known landmark in the city of Brunswick. The 1.78 m, 880 kilograms bronze statue was made by an unknown artist around 1166 during the reign of Henry the Lion (1129 - 1195). The original Brunswick Lion is located in Dankwarderode Castle; a replica of the original statue has stood on the Burgplatz since 1989.

Germany
Art - Culture Foundation
April 13, 2000
Expulsion from Paradise (ca. 1645) is an ivory statuette by German sculptor Leonhard Kern (1588 - 1662), known for his ivory sculpture of religious and mythological themes. The statuette is at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.

Greece
2400 Years of the Founding of Rhodes
February 26, 1993
Aphrodite of Rhodes is a life-size Hellenistic style statue made from Parian marble in ca. 1st Century B.C. The statue depicts Aphrodite crouching with her long and curly hair raised in her hands.

Italy
EUROPA - Sculptures
April 29, 1974
The Genius of Victory (1532 - 34) is a marble statue by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564), produced as part of a design for the tomb of Pope Julius II. It is 2.61 m high and is now in the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Italy
EUROPA - Sculptures
April 29, 1974
David is a life-size marble statue by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680). The 1.70 m-tall statue is part of the the Galleria Borghese collection. It was completed in the course of seven months from 1623 to 1624.

Here is an image of an engraved stamp depicting a statue of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), attributed to Russian Socialist Realism sculptor Nikolai Vasilyevich Tomsky (1900-1984), and issued by China (People's Republic) on October 15, 1954 as one of a set of three stamps commemorating the first anniversary of Stalin's death, Scott No. 231, plus an image of a photo of this statue, which once stood as a monument in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, but is now located in Grutas Park, a sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues and other ideological relics from the former Lithuanian SSR.

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India
Festival of India - Didarganj Yakshi
June 13, 1985
The Didarganj Yakshi is a 64-inch tall statue carved out of a single piece of sandstone. The Asokan period statue is one of the finest examples of Mauryan art.
The statue portrays a bare-chested female who wears a thin silk skirt and holds a fly whisk in her right hand.

Pakistan
Archaeological Heritage of Pakistan
July 21, 1999
The Fasting Buddha (also known as the Emaciated Buddha) is a Kushan Dynasty, Gandhara (2nd Century B.C.) statue at Lahore Museum. The 87 cm-high statue, made from schist, portrays the Buddha who practiced severe asceticism before his enlightenment.

South Korea
Definitive Issue - National Symbols
December 31, 1962
Geumdong Mireuk Bosal (National Treasure No. 78) is an 83.2 cm-high gilt-bronze statue made probably in the middle or late 6th Century. The statue features a crowned Maitreya seated on a stool with its right leg crossed over the left in deep meditation.