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The Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni is a Renaissance sculpture in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy, created by Andrea del Verrocchio in 1480–1488. Portraying the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni (who served for a long time under the Republic of Venice ), it has a height of 395 cm excluding the pedestal.
Image Portrayed person Location Date Sculptor Coordinates Note José de San Martín: Plaza San Martín, Retiro: 1862, 1909-1910: Louis-Joseph Daumas, Gustav Eberlein: The first equestrian statue in Argentina; a new red granite plinth, allegorical figures and reliefs were added in 1910
The equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio in Venice. Colleoni was born in Solza near Bergamo, which was then part of the Duchy of Milan. In Bergamo Colleoni later built himself a mortuary chapel, the Cappella Colleoni. The Colleoni family was noble, but had been exiled with the rest of the Guelphs by the Visconti of Milan.
A replica of Shrady's statue in Brooklyn, New York City. J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber, Country Club Plaza, 1910. Relocated in the 1950s from Harbor Hill in Roslyn, New York. The four equestrian statues may be allegorical figures of major rivers, with the Native American rider representing the Mississippi River.
[2] [4] The statue was cast in 1912 by the Roman Bronze Works of New York City, [5] which had also done the casting of Rhind's sculptures for the Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial in Washington, D.C. [6] George Washington was installed in Newark's Washington Park and dedicated on November 2, 1912, the anniversary of the event depicted.
As I researched the hotel and the 378-acre World Equestrian Center — a venue where riders compete, board their horses and more — I learned that Ocala, Fla. is known as the Horse Capital of the ...
This statue follows the Classical Roman tradition of equestrian statues as the monument to a ruler's power, evident from the statue of Marcus Aurelius in ancient Rome and the Regisole in Pavia, and continued in the Renaissance by examples such as Donatello's statue of Gattamelata (1453) in Padua and Verrocchio's statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1488) in Venice.
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...