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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.
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 ...
The earliest surviving Renaissance equestrian statue: Equestrian statue of Gattamelata by Donatello, on Piazza del Santo (Padua), 1453. This is a list of equestrian statues in Italy. Frequently represented persons: Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882) Victor Emmanuel II (1820–1878), Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II
The 2nd-century Roman bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, highly visible in Rome since antiquity, was the main influence on the Renaissance revival of the form. 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]
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