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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 ...
The original Horses inside the St Mark's Basilica The replica Horses of Saint Mark. The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).
The sculpture is titled Business Man on Horse. [23] The statue do not portray a specific individual. — Windsor, Ontario: William McElcheran Previously located on the grounds of Windsor Sculpture Park, although acts of vandalism against the sculpture led to its removal. The sculpture is titled Business Man on Horse. [24]
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Discovering the Enemy, 9th New York Cavalry Monument, by Caspar Buberl, 1888. 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument, by Smith Granite Company, 1889. 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument, by J.M. Gessler, ca. 1890. Major-General Meade, by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Cemetery Ridge, 1896. General Winfield Scott Hancock, by Frank Edwin Ellwell, Cemetery ...
The statue sits on a pedestal, and both the condottiero and his horse are portrayed in life size. Instead of portraying the soldier as larger-than-life, as in the classical Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome , where a sort of hierarchy of size demonstrates the subject's power, Donatello used emotion, position, and symbolism to convey ...
The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome owes its preservation on the Campidoglio to a common misidentification of Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor, with Constantine the Great, the Christian emperor; indeed, more than 20 other bronze equestrian statues of various emperors and generals had been melted down since the end 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