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A statue by John Steell showing Alexander taming Bucephalus. A massive creature with a massive head, Bucephalus is described as having a black coat with a large white star on his brow. [citation needed] He is also supposed to have had a "wall eye" (blue eye), [citation needed] and his breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain".
Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus is an 1826 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from ancient history when Alexander the Great tamed his famous warhorse Bucephalus. On the right of the picture are Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon and mother Olympias.
The Hawk for Peace, 1968, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley; Bucephalus, 1963, Saroyan Theatre, Fresno; Three Quintains, 1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
More images: Statue of Charles II: Parliament Square: 1685: Workshop of Grinling Gibbons: Equestrian statue: Lead statue on ashlar pedestal: Category A–listed The pedestal is an 1835 replica of Robert Mylne's original. [30] More images: Alexander and Bucephalus
[2] 17 statues have since then been removed and replaced. The National Statuary Hall Collection comprises 60 statues of bronze and 39 of marble . Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection.
Like Alexander's horse Bucephalus, Peritas was awarded a city named in his honor, with a monument to his glory in its central square. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Plutarch , after recalling the story of Bucephalus, "It is said, too, that when he lost a dog also, named Peritas, which had been reared by him and was loved by him, he founded a city and ...
a statue of Robert Burns in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1887; a bronze bas relief funerary panel of Lord and Lady Rutherfurd, and later a marble bust of Lady Rutherfurd, modelled after her death mask; a bust of Earl Grey in the Council Chambers, Edinburgh; the statue Alexander taming Bucephalus in the courtyard in front of Edinburgh's City Chambers
Alexander and Bucephalus by John Steell (1832) The first significant Scottish sculptor to pursue their career in Scotland was John Steell (1804–1891). His first work to gain significant public attention was his Alexander and Bucephasus (1832). His 1832 design for a statue of Walter Scott was incorporated into the author's memorial in ...