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  2. Bucephalus - Wikipedia

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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".

  3. Peritas - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Edinburgh City Chambers - Wikipedia

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    The main building is set back from the High Street behind a quadrangle fronted by a groin-vaulted open arcade screen facing the street. There is a prominent bronze statue of Alexander Taming Bucephalus, by John Steell, in the quadrangle.

  5. Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. John Steell - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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    Alexander appears to have introduced a new coinage in Cilicia in Tarsus, after the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, which went on to become the main coinage of the empire. [122] Alexander minted gold staters, silver tetradrachms and drachims, and various fractional bronze coins. The types of these coins remained constant in his empire.

  8. Alexander Mosaic - Wikipedia

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    The Alexander Mosaic, also known as the Battle of Issus Mosaic, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy. It is typically dated between c. 120 and BC 100 [ 1 ] and depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia . [ 2 ]

  9. Scottish art - Wikipedia

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    Alexander and Bucephalus by John Steell (1832) In the early decades of the century, sculpture commissions in Scotland were often given to English artists. Thomas Campbell (c. 1790 – 1858) and Lawrence Macdonald (1799–1878) undertook work in Scotland, but worked for much of their careers in London and Rome. [ 64 ]