The statue is a sculpture effigy god or demigod hero
The word statue, which originally meant anything that causes pleasure, but then came to mean, because of habit acquired by ancients to erect effigies of gods in their honor, each effigy in marble, wood, metal or clay depicting either gods or demigods
  The integral models of people called statues. When the statues represent only a human head, usually the person who died or became famous and experienced the glory, called sculptural portraits, busts or bust.
  People made statues from antiquity. The reasons inducing them to it, it was mainly religious. Enliven so the gods and believed that with this ensured their protection.
Ancient Greece
  The Greeks used to make sculptures from 3,000 BC, but it was very small as 15 cm and not artfully. Parastainan only women were clay or marble bone ..
  In the seventh century before Christ experienced by sculptors in Greece their power in stone, giving their human side. Using the top soft stones (the limestone) that easily and then carved marble. Give two stops forms: sitting or standing, but full, strength and life. Make throughout the Archaic period Kouros (male) and daughters. The body of the statues is, in principle, given without proper proportions, without perfect knowledge of anatomy. But soon overcome this difficulty and why artists around observing with great attention to athletes palaestrae, learn the secrets of the anatomy of the human torso. Thus, the Greek temples in all cities filled, literally statues smaller or larger, full pulse and life offerings of the faithful. The male body prefer to depict nudity and the female figures wearing simple Doric chiton or elaborately pleated Ionic. And use colors on the marble to mark the pupils of the eyes, hair and various details on dresses.
  In 6th century is an important event that will give wings to the plastic of copper. Two great craftsmen in Samos, Rikos and Theodore, they will find a way to make cast bronze statues, pouring molten metal into molds, where they had previously carved in the form of the statue. After the Persian wars and thirty years later, there is a marked change in the attitude of Athens and all of Greece. This change reflects the best of everything else, art and particularly sculpture. The thirty years between 479 to 450 BC tell the story of Art "strict rhythm." The body is mounted to statues anymore otherwise, in a natural posture and weighed. The smile disappears from the people, as opposed to the prior period, which even when they were wounded or dying man, engraved in the form of the "archaic" smile. Rigorous collection and concentration characterizes the expression on the faces of statues and other sculptures of the era, filled juice, flame and strength.
  450 BC Art has come to such a point of perfection and has much refinement, civility and reflection that has never been surpassed since. Greece has to demonstrate a Phidias, who described him as "plastic of the gods" and before him one Myron and Polykleitos one. But the generation of sculptors of the era of Pericles had prepared a whole series of previous great artists who labored to achieve with his mortal power to give them superhuman peaceful form of gods on the hard stone. Two centuries of relentless effort led to the miracle of unattainable that era who managed to make the cold, hard, marble, getting expression and soul and to reflect on it alive the divine presence, calm, thoughtful, ethereal.
  The people depicted in the statues of the classical art of the 5th century is handsome in person, the perfect proportions of the body, but is immersed in a deep collection, which recedes from the human. Knowledgeable people in the classical era to have weaknesses, but also know well that have the ability to overcome and they lifted themselves from all the other creatures of the earth, in a realm above the full human kindness, tact and reverence simultaneously. These ideas and ideals are stamped on to the sculptures. Nothing violent or sudden not troubled the serene calmness of statues, no ugly thought not askimizei beautiful face.
  The change of seasons watching her endlessly sculpture. The statues over the years lose the peace and tranquility that was spilled into masterpieces of art feidiakis. Pain untold grief and express the faces of statues of exquisite Parian sculptor Scopas. Sweetness, abstract collection voluptuousness and the gods of the Athenian Praxiteles, son of the famous creator Kifisodotou, who created the bronze group of Peace with Pluto. The statues on the 4th BC century, without stopping are valid only changing spirit and expression. In the Hellenistic period, the artistic life carried out by Greece. The Greek art gives back new sculptural works brilliantly samples with different spirit but more in cities of Greeks and less outside Athens. The forms of the statues in the turbulent, full of adventures and furious passions that time, emit distress, grief, pain and despair they felt most people in their soul, where tranquility and serenity were exiled to new living conditions that prevailed.
  The construction of statues in ancient times the Mycenaean and Minoan times, as in Egypt, in the time of Pharaoh, was the direct carving of gods or kings or glorious people on stone or marble. Later, however, when the perfected art of statuary, the sculpt was based on a model, the model, who made earlier, with soft materials, the artist. For the metal statues, they made them in pouring molten metal, usually brass or copper into molds.
  In antiquity it was the usual construction forged statues, statues that were wooden and metal plates to invest and even STATUE, as was the famous statue of Phidias, who represented the god Zeus was erected in Olympia.