#equestrian statue

[romegreeceart]

Ancient Equestrian Statues

Marcus Nonius Balbus, 1st century BCE (MANN,July 2019)

2. Funerary statue of a child. Via Ostiense, Rome, 3rd century CE. (Baths of Diocletian Museum, Rome, July 2015)

3. Jockey of Artemision, 150-140 BCE. ( National Achaeological Museum of Athens, October 2008)

4. Dioscuri statues, from Theatre of Pempey (Piazza del Campidoglio, July 2012)

5. Marcus Aurelius, c. 175 CE (Capitoline Museums, July 2007)

6. Statue of a youth on horseback (British Museum, July 2022)

[fly-tempest]

Equestrian Statue, acrylic on paper, 9"x12".

Using some metallic paints and drawing inspiration from bronze sunbirds (sunbirds are all very shiny and have a beautiful range of colors)

[uncleclaudius]

16th March 37 AD, Caligula became the third Roman Emperor.

The Romans really hoped they would have a good time after over twenty years of dour, unpopular Tiberius, and it certainly proved to be eventful.

Here is a statue of Caligula on a horse. Perhaps it is Incitatus, his favourite horse, which, despite what the most popular stories say, was not made a consul. However, Caligula did give the horse lavish stables and its own slaves to take care of him.

[horses-in-art-history]

Vital Gabriel Dubray, Equestrian Statuette of Napoleon I, c. 1877, Lady Lever Art Gallery.

[mahgnib]

Cyrus Dallin, “Appeal to the Great Spirit”, 1908. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Three angles

[akkar2]

Equestrian statue with portrait of an Iulian-Claudian prince, 1st half, 1st century AD British Museum, London

[artschoolglasses]

Equestrian statue of Louis XIV

Versailles, France

[thecrankyprofessor]

One of the odd examples of loss from antiquity is that this is one of very rare equestrian statues to survive - and we know there were lots! Even a middle-class city like Pompeii had one. The Archeological Museum in Naples identifies the rider as Caligula, though it admits the i.d. is a problem. Another candidate is the local magnate Marcus Tullius. My picture of the detached group (and my rather short colleague for scale; it was 2022, we were always masked indoors).

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD.

[contenteditor]

Reiterstandbild des Königs Ludwig I., Munich (by world wide).

[m3dieval]

Paolo Savelli's funerary monument (detail) at the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice. Early 15th century.

[illustratus]

Equestrian statue of Philip IV, King of France in Notre-Dame Cathedral, destroyed between 1792 and 1794.

[remembermeclear-61]

My deceased mother's maiden name was Savoy, the same line that exists in America...

Monument to Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna, Austria

[emaadsidiki]

Sherman Monument by Saint Gaudens 🗽

[yeoldegodzilla]

Godzilla equestrian statue found in a church in Trieste.

[vox-anglosphere]

Thought to be the oldest photo of London in existence - a treasure.

A photograph of King Charles I's statue in front of Whitehall, snapped by French photographer Monsieur de St Croixin in 1839, believed to be the oldest photograph of London.

[monogreek]

"Yannis Pappas in search of Alexander" Exhibition,

Fougaro Art Center - Nafplion (Greece)

/ph. Yorgos Yannakos, October 31-2024/