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The statue is directed away from the Piazza and the Cathedral complex. The Equestrian statue of Gattamelata is a sharp departure from earlier, post-Classical equestrian statues, such as the Gothic Bamberg Horseman (c. 1230s). While the Bamberg Horseman depicts a German emperor, it lacks the dimension, power, and naturalism of Gattamelata. While ...
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
Erasmo Stefano of Narni (1370 – 16 January 1443), better known by his nickname of Gattamelata (meaning "Honeyed Cat"), was an Italian condottiero of the Renaissance. He was born in Narni , and served a number of Italian city-states: he began with Braccio da Montone , served the Papal States and Florence , as well as the Republic of Venice in ...
Equestrian statue of Gattamelata; F. The Feast of Herod (Donatello) H. High altar of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua; Huldschinsky Madonna (sculpture) J.
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 ...
Equestrian statue of Gattamelata; L. Leonardo's horse; M. Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius; Equestrian Monument to Giuseppe Missori, Milan; Monument of Aemilius ...
Another view. Verrocchio based the sculpture on Donatello's statue of Gattamelata, as well as on the ancient statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, the St. Mark's Horses in Venice, the Regisole (a late antiquity work in Pavia, now lost), and the frescoes of the Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood by Paolo Uccello and of the Equestrian Monument of Niccolò da Tolentino by Andrea del Castagno.
Equestrian monument of Jan Žižka by Bohumil Kafka in Žižkov - 9 m tall. Equestrian monument of Francis I by Josef Max on the Vltava bank, 1850. Equestrian statue of Jaroslav Hašek near the pubs where he wrote his works in Žižkov by Karel Nepraš and Karolína Neprašová, 2005; Equestrian statue of Saint George in 3rd courtyard of Prague ...