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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.
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.
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
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 ...
Andrea del Verrocchio (/ v ə ˈ r oʊ k i oʊ / və-ROH-kee-oh, [1] [2] US also /-ˈ r ɔː k-/- RAW-, [3] Italian: [anˈdrɛːa del verˈrɔkkjo]; born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni; c. 1435 – 1488) was an Italian sculptor, painter and goldsmith who was a master of an important workshop in Florence.
The equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice, Italy. Condottieri (Italian: [kondotˈtjɛːri]; sg.: condottiero or condottiere) were Italian military leaders during the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
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.
Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio, cast by Leopardi Engraving of the base of the central flagpole in Piazza San Marco. Alessandro Leopardi (sometimes called Leopardo) (1466 [citation needed] – 1512) was a Venetian sculptor, bronze founder and architect.