Artemisium is a cape north of Euboea, Greece. The legendary hollow cast bronze statue of Zeus, or possibly Poseidon, known as the Artemision Bronze was found off this cape in a sunken ship, as was the Jockey of Artemision, a bronze statue of a racehorse and its jockey.

Donatello’s bronze statue of David (circa 1440s) is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance, and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity. It depicts David with an enigmatic smile, posed with his foot on Goliath’s severed head just after defeating the giant. The youth is completely naked, apart from a laurel-topped hat and boots, bearing the sword of Goliath.

A memorial honoring the forty-one Hispanic soldiers who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor was built in Laredo, Texas in 2002… The David B. Barkley Plaza has a bronze statue of David B. Barkley and an American flag measuring 100 ft by 50 ft and is 308 ft tall making it the tallest flagpole in the United States. The memorial is located at 27°30’22”N 99°30’8”W? / ?27.50611°N 99.50222°W? / 27.50611; -99.50222? (David B. Barkley Plaza).

Sri Lankan Sinhalese Bronze statue of Buddhist Alakothiveshwara Tara Devi statue now in England is a wonderful example of Bronze statues. From the ninth through the thirteenth century the Chola dynasty in South India represented the pinnacle of bronze casting in India.

‘Alexander Hamilton 1757-1804’ is a slightly larger-than-life cast bronze statue of one of America’s Founding Fathers. A graduate of King’s College (now Columbia University) in New York, Hamilton went on to become an economist, political theorist, Constitutional lawyer, artillery captain, aide to George Washington, member of the Continental Congress, author of the Federalist Papers, and the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury.

If you happen to be driving through Emporia, Kansas, be sure and check out Peter Pan Park. You will walk away knowing more about William Allen White and his sweet little girl that has been captured in memory with a bronze statue.