Equestrian statue

Equestrian statue, often used as a synonym for a monument or equestrian statue, which is from the ancient world assumed the form of a public presentation so that the honored person as a rider.

Forms of representation and delimitation

Monumental equestrian statues are usually performed as an art casting foundries in specialized image. The equestrian statue is also an issue of monumental painting. The ancient origin of this form of representation requires an architectural base.

The best generals and rulers reserved equestrian statue (see vandalism and monuments fall) can be distinguished from most speakers or politicians reservation of still image and from most of the (sound) poet and scholar representation reserved seat image (eg monument Theodor Mommsen in Berlin). The memorial bust, however, is the public form of portrait sculpture.

Occasionally the term equestrian statue (also Equestrian Portrait ) is also commonly used for representations of people on horseback.

But there are also the horse monument (for example, the jumper Meteor (horse) in Kiel )

See also: ruler image

Well-known equestrian statues

  • Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius ( 2nd century ), Rome
  • Bamberg Horseman, 13th century
  • Magdeburg Rider, 13th century
  • Equestrian statue of Gattamelata, military leader, by Donatello ( 1453, Padua )
  • Equestrian statue of Colleoni, commander, by Andrea del Verrocchio ( 1488, Venice)
  • Equestrian statue of King Louis XIII. , Place des Vosges, Paris, 1639 (Bronze) and 1829 (stone)
  • Equestrian statue of the Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1711, Dusseldorf )
  • Equestrian statue of the Saxon Elector and Polish King August the Strong called the Goldener Reiter ( 1736, Dresden)
  • The Bronze Horseman ( 1782, St. Petersburg)
  • Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great (1851, Berlin)
  • Ernst -August- Monument (1861, Hanover )
  • Prince Eugene and Archduke Karl Monument, 1865, Heldenplatz (Vienna)
  • Ban Jelacic statue, 1866 at the Ban Jelacic square in Zagreb, Croatia
  • Equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi in front of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, 1879
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial ( Dusseldorf ), 1896
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I monument at Deutsches Eck, the largest equestrian monument of Germany (1897, Koblenz )
  • Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument (1897, Berlin)
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I. monument ( Hamburg) (1898, and 1903, Altona, Hamburg)
  • Equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I on Egidienplatz, Nuremberg
  • Equestrian statue of the Saxon King John, by Johannes Schilling (1889, Theatre Square in Dresden)
  • Equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II in Piazza del Duomo in Milan
  • Equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II on the Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome, 1911
  • Equestrian statue (1912, Windhoek )
  • Equestrian statue of Genghis Khan, Mongolia, 2008
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