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The Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV is a sculpture designed and partially executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Bernini first discussed the project while in France in the mid-1660s, but it did not start until later in the decade, when back in Rome.
The equestrian statue of Louis XIV is a bronze equestrian statue of the King of France Louis XIV, located on the Place d'Armes in front of the Palace of Versailles. Until 2008–2009, it was located in the cour d'honneur.
The equestrian statue of Louis XIV is a monument erected in 1828 in the center of the Promenade du Peyrou in Montpellier, Hérault.Classified as a monument historique in 1954, on a site itself classified in 1943, [1] this bronze statue is the second representation of King Louis XIV in this city, as a previous version was destroyed during the French Revolution.
Marble statue of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1670s); now replaced by a copy at the end of the pièce d'eau des Suisses []; Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans in Neuilly-sur-Seine, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), initially erected near Djamaa el Djedid in Algiers and relocated in 1981 [3]
Equestrian statue of King Louis XIV, by François-Frédéric Lemot (1825) In the center of the square, there is an equestrian statue of Louis XIV by François-Frédéric Lemot. It is accompanied, at his feet, by two allegorical statues of the Saône and the Rhône, created by the brothers Nicolas and Guillaume Costou in 1720.
In 1699, Girardon completed another major work, a bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV, which was placed in the center in the center of Place Louis le Grand (now Place Vendôme). This statue was melted down during the French Revolution and is now known only by a small bronze model made by Girardon himself, in the Louvre, He died in Paris in 1715.
Bosio's Louis XIV. In 1828, the restored Bourbon king, Charles X, commissioned the current equestrian statue, which was sculpted by François Joseph Bosio in imitation of the famous Bronze Horseman. Louis XIV, dressed as a Roman emperor, sits on a proud horse rearing on its hind legs. An iron fence encircles the twelve-metre-high monument.
The nude sculpture was widely disliked and removed in 1814 before Napoleon's fall. Its metal was used for the new Equestrian statue of Henry IV by François-Frédéric Lemot, inaugurated on the Pont Neuf in 1818. A more permanent replacement was erected in 1822, namely an equestrian statue of Louis XIV by François Joseph Bosio. This monument ...