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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
A replica of Shrady's statue in Brooklyn, New York City. J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber, Country Club Plaza, 1910. Relocated in the 1950s from Harbor Hill in Roslyn, New York. The four equestrian statues may be allegorical figures of major rivers, with the Native American rider representing the Mississippi River.
The 2nd-century Roman bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, highly visible in Rome since antiquity, was the main influence on the Renaissance revival of the form. 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]
The following is a list of equestrian statues in the United Kingdom and includes equestrian statues, where a rider is mounted on a horse; and equine statues, where the horse is riderless, and/or the rider the is dismounted. The list includes statues situated in the United Kingdom, in addition to the Channel Islands.
The equestrian statue of Peter the Great is situated in the Senate Square (formerly the Decembrists Square), in Saint Petersburg. Catherine the Great , a German princess who married into the Romanov line, was anxious to connect herself to Peter the Great to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the people. [ 2 ]
Equestrian of José de San Martín in the Parque del Oeste, 1961. The statue is a replica of the one in Buenos Aires by Louis-Joseph Daumas, 1862. Equestrian of King Carlos III at the Puerta del Sol. Made by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Eduardo Zancada in 1994. The statue is a replica of a smaller one sculpted by Juan Pascual de Mena in the ...
Note: "Equestrian statues" have one or more riders on horses. "Equine statues" of horses without riders, or with dismounted riders, belong in the parent category Category:Sculptures of horses Subcategories
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