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  Equestrian sculpture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Equestrian monument of Bishop Absalon in bronze by Vilhelm Bissen on Højbro Plads, Copenhagen, erected 1902.
The equestrian sculptural monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Deutsches Eck, by Emil Hundrieser, is the tallest of the Kaiser Wilhelm equestrian monuments, the sculpture itself is 14 meters high.
Equestrian of Stephen I by Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, Hungary
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 Equestrian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Equestrian (Roman), a member of one of the upper classes in ancient Rome
Equestrian sculpture, a statue of a leader on horseback
Equestrian nomad, one of various nomadic or semi-nomadic ethnic groups whose culture places special emphasis on horse breeding and riding
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 Equestrian Helmet -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In former times equestrianism was closely associated with the military: medieval knights were equestrians, as were their military successors, the cavalry.
is the prototype of all modern equestrian sculptures, since it was displayed uninterruptly for eighteen ceturies]] In sculpture, an equestrian (from the Latin "equus" meaning horse) is a statue consisting of a horse with mounted rider.
An Equestrian (Latin ''eques'', plural ''equites'') was a member of one of the two upper social classes in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.8.11
In the introduction E. reviews the previous scholarship on the pieces and presents her methodology, which is a synthetic approach combining information from vase paintings, architectural sculpture, literary references, and the statues themselves to derive possible meanings and identities of the sculptures.
The merits and pitfalls of using vase painting comparanda, architectural sculpture as comparanda, and linking equestrian statues with historical events as a means of refining the relative chronology are all discussed with specific reference to the previous scholarship on equestrian statues.
Bases for equestrian statues are usually inscribed on the short side suggesting that this was an important viewpoint.
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 equestrian sculpture on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Twirling moustaches and equestrian statuary: Polish semiotics in Condrad's 'Nostromo.'
An equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson is one of the featured attractions at the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia.
The Tombs of the Doges of Venice, The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco, The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio and Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice: Remodelling Antiquity.
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 National Historical Museum
EQUESTRIAN SCULPTURE D. Thanks to the team work of the Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration and the financial support of the Museum's Friends Association, in 1999 the restoration of the monumental equestrian statue of D.Pedro II was concluded.
2,80meters high and 3,00meters in length, the sculpture was exposed for public visitation in 1922 until 1985, when, for safety measures, since the statue was very frail and had to be dismounted.
His works can be found in museums, churches and public squares, as, for example, the sculpture of João Caetano, in front of the theater that carries the actors name, in Rio de Janeiro.
www.museuhistoriconacional.com.br /ingles/mh-e-113x.htm   (376 words)

  
 Equestrian sculpture: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Equestrian of King George IV[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] in Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square quick summary:
The history of sculpture is varied and is illustrative of how sculpture has changed extensively over the ages....
The international sculpture symposium movement was spearheaded by karl prantl in austria in 1959....
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 Sculptureworks, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Mustangs of Las Colinas, a modern-day equestrian sculpture, was planned and executed as a memorial to the evolving culture in North America.
Texas is the land of the entrepreneur, a citizenship of individuals, a land of the free spirit.
Meanwhile, during the several years in which the sculpture pieces were being created, enlarged, cast and finished in bronze, the architectural firm of Owings, Skidmore, and Merrill had been engaged to design the complex of buildings which would surround the plaza.
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 Search Results for "Sculpture"
sculpture, art of producing in three dimensions representations of natural or imagined forms.
...bronze sculpture, Bronze is ideal for casting art works; it flows into all crevices of a mold, thus perfectly reproducing every detail of the most delicately modeled...
...Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the...
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 Sculpture articles on Encyclopedia.com
sculpture SCULPTURE [sculpture] art of producing in three dimensions representations of natural or imagined forms.
It includes sculpture in the round, which can be viewed from any direction, as well as incised relief, in which the lines are cut into a flat surface.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN [Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden] Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented by him
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 Sculpture.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Since the Church was the patron, the ‘given’ was that their sculptures had to be holy images—popes or saints or other religious figures, living or dead.
But I looked at all his sculptures, not just the saints but also his mythological figures.” As an example of that master’s all-stops-out approach to non-saintly subject matter she cited the erotically charged abduction depicted in Pluto and Persephone in Rome’s Borghese Gallery.
One of the first sculptures Shea made after working her way through the saints was Nobody’s Angel, which, for all its stylistic similarities to the Magdalen and Joan, portrays a woman decidedly of this world.
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 Search Results for "Sculpture"
It includes sculpture in the round, which can be viewed from any direction,...
...in sculpture denotes a stature superior to ordinary life, but not colossal.
...relief, in sculpture, three-dimensional projection from a flat background.
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 GLOSSARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
reproducing a sculptural form: usually refers to pouring liquid plaster, metal or glass into a mould where it hardens, in contrast to pressing a more solid material into a mould (which is called moulding) 2.
Funerary sculpture: produced for rituals commemorating the dead or as an individual expression of grief: sculpture used in, or associated with, the rites of burial to document, revere, represent and identify the dead such as Tombstones, effigies, urns, etc. See also Memorial
Sculpture: works of art in which images and forms are carried out primarily in three dimensions.
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 Uwannasearch.com :: equestrian sculpture links and information packed - Sports Category   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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In sculpture, an equestrian is a statue consisting of a horse with mounted rider.
Equestrian sculpture The Marcus Aurelius on Capitoline Hill is the prototype of all modern equestrian sculptures, since it was displayed uninterruptly for eighteen ceturies In sculpture, an...
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 Australian Artist - Jennie Scott Horse, Equestrian & Wildlife Sculptor - Cairns Artist - Artwork Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jennie Scott is a talented equestrian sculptor, whose animal sculptures and horse sculptures have been exihibited worldwide.
She has written a small article, Touched by the Horse about her horse art and horse scupltures, and the challenges in the modern art world which face her as an equine sculptor.
Equestrian sculpture was once regarded as the ultimate beauty and grace in artform.
www.artworkaustralia.com /jennie-scott.html   (892 words)

  
 This Is The Place Heritage Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A magnificent equestrian sculpture honoring the courageous spirit of the Pony Express.
This moving sculpture depicts a handcart pioneer family kneeling in grateful prayer at the end of their journey.
A striking sculpture expressing the elation and gratitude of the Utah pioneers when the seagulls saved their crops from ravenous crickets.
www.thisistheplace.org /monuments.html   (235 words)

  
 Frank Meisler Sculpture
Equestrian sculpture for H.E. the President of Turkmenistan.
Sculpture of H.E. the President of the Ukraine.
Sculpture of H.E. the President of Turkmenistan On a revolving marble base.
www.frankmeislersculpture.com /cgi-bin/catalogue.cgi?Special-Commissions-And-Exhibitions&entries   (697 words)

  
 Robert Glen - Sculpture in Bronze
His sculptures reside in many private collections including those of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, His Highness the Aga Khan, and the late Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta.
In 1990, he completed another equestrian sculpture—two horsemen one and a half times life-size—for the City of San Jose, to commemorate the raising of the first American flag in California.
In 1990, he completed another large scale equestrian sculpture for the City of San Jose which depicts two horsemen, and commemorates the raising of the first American flag in California.
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 Bronze Alive - About the Sculptor
She is actively involved with the American Academy of Equine Art, being a Vice-President and Director of Exhibitions, and conducting an annual workshop of equestrian sculpture, under their auspices, at The Kentucky Horse Park, since their teaching programs began in 1992.
In 2002 and 2003, she also taught classes, in sculpture of the horse, at the Scottsdale Artist's School in Arizona.
Her work has appeared on the cover of The Chronicle of the Horse nineteen times, and she was featured in Equine magazine in the Fall 1989 issue, Spur magazine in July/August 1996 and Kentucky Horse Park's magazine, "Discover Horses", Fall/Winter, 2003, as well as various other publications.
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 R. G. Meyer Art Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Relief Sculpture is one of the most ancient art forms.
Horses and equestrian subjects have long been a favorite of sculptors and their patrons.
The equestrian art, of award winning sculptor R. Meyer, captures the spirit and action of various equine activities and reflects the sculptors 45 years experience in the horse world, as rider, trainer and coach, working with cow ponies, event, dressage, polo and race horses.
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 NY Times Articlle Il Cavallo. Tallix: NY Fine Art Foundry. Bronze Sculpture Casting, Fabrication, Monuments, Artist ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Today, Leonardo's dream, that he first arficulated in a postage-stamp-size sketch, was revealed in three jaw-dropping dimensions, in the form of a proudly prancing 15-ton bronze stallion, exactly to his proportions.
While children, retirees and passing commuters snapped photographs of the horse outside, inside the cavernous main building at the Tallix Foundry, which cast the sculpture, workers busily smoothed the weld marks on pieces of the only other full-size casting.
The main resource was a trove of Leonardo's drawings that surfaced in Madrid in 1965, but only a few of those were directly related to his plans for the Milan horse, she said.
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We specialize in private and civic sculpture commissions and public art by established British artists.
Along with our commissioning service; we supply limited edition bronze gallery work by our artists and we also have a number of life size editions suitable for equestrian centres, public spaces and parks and new housing and office developments.
The artists we represent are selected for their exceptional talent and dedication and they all have a proven record of producing large scale works.
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 Sculpture.org
Patricia Cronin’s three-ton marble mortuary sculpture Memorial to a Marriage is heroic in size, scale, and theme.
Jessica Hough, curator of “Family” at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art this summer, wrote in the catalogue: “Cronin’s ambitious sculpture celebrates and makes official in death her ‘marriage,’ which cannot be made legal in life.” I am using a national form, that is, American 19th-century ideal sculpture, to address a federal failure.
Usually public sculpture of this scale is financed by an institution, a municipality, or a wealthy collector.
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 BUDAPEST IMAGES
ERKEL Sculpture of Ferenc Erkel, the composer of the Hungarian National Anthem.
STEPHEN I. Equestrian sculpture of Saint Stephen I, the first Hungarian king, with the Holy Crown on his head, holding his sign, the "apostolic" double-cross in his right.
VOROSMARTY Sculpture of Mihaly Vorosmarty, poet of the "Szozat", one of Hungary's greatest patriotic poems.
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 Amazing Equestrian Horse Jumping and Dressage Statue Trophies!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This resin sculpture is a great gift idea or a perfect award for a dressage competition.
Sculpture includes a personalized nameplate with up to four lines of text!
This sculpture is a resin material, silver in color with gold accents.
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 sculpture
It includes sculpture in the round, which can be viewed from any direction, as well as incised
Aegina, sculptures - Aegina, c.500–480 B.C., marble sculptures from the temple of Aphaia discovered in 1811 and...
sculpture: History - History Ancient Sculpture Sculpture has been a means of human expression since prehistoric times.
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 Jean Buchanan Sculpture, Dartmoor, Devon UK | equine and animal sculpture
I was a bit nervous to start with doing horses because I thought I would be teased for having a teenage girly fettish, but by the second year had got over that.
I studied the French Animaliers, travelling to Paris to see the actual sculptures, and in doing so also fell in love with Degas equestrian sculptures.
I have been gradually building up my own sculpture work again in my spare time, and for the last two years have been selling my work in local galleries, along with doing various exhibitions such as 9 Days of Art and the SOE exhibitions.
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This site features a variety of sumi-e and sculpture, much of which celebrates the horse in art.
The art of the horse and the art of dressage are prominently featured in the Equestrian Sumi-e Gallery.
The Sculpture Gallery features equestrian sculpture that uses wire and natural materials to capture the movement and spirit of the horse.
www.wind-horse-studio.com   (320 words)

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