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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
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
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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.
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Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni; E. Equestrian monument of Emmanuel Philibert; F. Fountain of the Rosello; G. Monument to Garibaldi (Rome) Equestrian statue ...