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	Equestrian sculpture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Equestrian of Stephen I by Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, Hungary
		Equestrian of Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade by Enrico Pazzi, 1882.
		Statue of Philip III in Madrid, at the Plaza Mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equestrian_sculpture (2338 words)

	St. Peter's - Constantine Equestrian Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		At the right end of the portico is the equestrian statue of Constantine, made by Bernini and considered one of his masterpieces.
		The emperor on a galloping horse is gazing skyward, astonished by the apparition of the cross.
		The impetuous dynamic effect of the statue of Constantine, by Bernini, is accentuated by a large sheet of stucco imitating a damask fabric woven with gold thread.
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Statues/Constantine/Constantine.htm (424 words)

	Cairo Statues
		The statue of Soliman Pasha (1788-1860) by Henri Alfred Jacquemart (1824-96), depicts the French-born officer (a.k.a.
		Statue of Prime Minister Ahmed Maher Pasha (1888 - assassinated in parliament on 24 February 1945) is reportedly the work of Mohammed Hilmi Youssef (the name 'Hilmi Taher' is etched at the base of the statue itself under the left foot).
		Colossal statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps by Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-11/09/1910) installed at entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Saiid and unveiled on 17 November 1899 in the presence of Khedive Abbas Hilmi together with Countess Ferdinand de Lesseps and her son Charles de Lesseps.
	www.egy.com /landmarks/Cairo-Statues.shtml (1383 words)

	Rock Creek Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		This statue of the girl who led the French armies against the British forces and raised the siege of Orleans was cast under the direction of the Ministre des Beaux Arts in Paris.
		A granite statue of a soldier erected by the State of New York in honor of the war dead who died in the defense of the Capital in 1864.
		This bronze equestrian statue of General McClellan, who distinguished himself at the Battle of Antietam and was head of the Army of the Potomac, stands at the crest of a hill overlooking Connecticut Avenue.
	www.nps.gov /rocr/cultural/statues.htm (1569 words)

	Leonardo DaVinci
		He wrote to Leonardo and instructed that the statue must be ready by November for the marriage of his illegitimate daughter.
		It was the statue that made Leonardo famous throughout Italy which was somewhat ironic as he considered sculpting to be noisy and dirty work.
		The statue was to consist of a "bronze horse and rider, a marble base with eight columns and eight sculptured figures, together with recumbent figure of the marshal accompanied by six harpies with candelabra."
	www.lairweb.org.nz /leonardo/equestrian.html (852 words)

	Condottieri and the Great Equestrian Statues and Paintings of Renaissance Italy
		In fact the statues were another technical triumph of Renaissance technology as they were the first full sized equestrian statues to be made in Europe since the end of the Western Roman Empire, 1000 years earlier.
		His is the only cast equestrian statue to survive from classical times, only because the good (by then Christian) citizens of Rome mistakenly thought it was of Constantine (288 - 337), the founder of Constantinople and, from a conversion on his death bed, the first Christian Emperor.
		The statue stood for centuries outside the Roman Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano.
	www.paradoxplace.com /Insights/Equestrian/Equestrians.htm (2326 words)

	equestrian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Horsemanship, art of maintaining precise control over a horse while riding it (sometimes referred to as equitation), or while driving it from the...
		Equestrian Sports, sporting events that involve people on horseback.
		Equestrian Order (Latin ordo equester), in ancient Rome, originally the census (property) class of equites (horse riders).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /equestrian.html (118 words)

	Equestrian statue of Lord Mayo, Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of India, was assassinated on 8 February 1872 at the Andaman Islands, when touring his territories in HMS Glasgow; this event is recorded in both the log of that ship, and William Loney's Medical Journal.
		The statue stood at the junction of Mayo Road and Duffrin Road near the Maidan for more than ninety years, but was later removed.
		The sculptor was Thomas Thornycroft (1815-1885), who worked in the studio of the portrait sculptor John Francis (as did the sculptor of the statue of Queen Victoria in Bombay), and married his daughter Mary.
	www.pdavis.nl /MayoStatue.htm (259 words)

	The Wellington Statue
		Ten years later, following the unveiling of a fine equestrian statue of King George III by Matthew Wyatt in Cockspur Street, a proposal was made to erect an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in the West End of London.
		To move the statue from Wyatt's studio in the Harrow Road to Hyde Park Corner the roof of the foundry was removed.
		The statue was hoisted by blocks and tackle and placed onto an enormous wooden carriage, weighing twenty tons and with wheels 10 feet in diameter, which had been specially constructed at the Woolwich Dockyards.
	www.hants.gov.uk /museum/aldershot/faq/wellington.html (1436 words)

	The Straight Dope: In statues, does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider? ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Significantly, in the two equestrian statues I turned up by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the most famous sculptors of his day and someone who surely would have respected a code had there been one, I found that one piece did correspond with the code and one didn't.
		Recently you scoffed at the idea that in equestrian statues of war heroes, the number of feet the horse has raised indicates whether the rider was killed or wounded in battle.
		At Gettysburg, a statue that has all four of the horse's hooves on the ground means that the rider survived the battle without a scratch.
	www.straightdope.com.cob-web.org:8888 /classics/a5_074.html (806 words)

	ArtLex on Statues, Statuettes, and Statuary
		"Statue" is not a synonym for "sculpture." Many other three-dimensional forms are considered sculptures than are considered statues.
		art of making statues, and is also a rare term for a sculptor.
		Some terms of this family are directly related to "status," while others come to English through "statuere," a Latin verb from "status" that means "to set up." "Statuere" also gave us "constitute," "institute," and "restitution," among other similar-sounding words.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/s/statue.html (235 words)

	Slots- og Ejendomsstyrelsen - The Equestrian Statue on Kongens Nytorv - The Equestrian Statue on Kongens Nytorv
		The equestrian statue on Kongens Nytorv will be familiar to a good many people who matriculated in Copenhagen.
		Abraham César Lamoureux’s monument to King Christian V from 1688, erected on the new square, was the first equestrian statue in Scandinavia.
		The statue was made of gilded lead, as it was not yet possible to provide such large castings in bronze in Denmark.
	www.ses.dk /154000c (231 words)

	St. Peter's - Charlemagne Equestrian Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		On the far left of the portico is the equestrian statue of Charlemagne, first emperor to be crowned in St. Peter's, on Christmas eve of 800.
		Clement XI's most important contribution was the equestrian statue of Charlemagne, made to offset that of Constantine, beyond the southern extension of the portico.
		The poet Byron, standing one morning on 1817 in the portico, overheard an Englishman mistake the two equestrian statues for those of Saints Peter and Paul, and remark to a companion, "I never knew that Paul rode a horse again after his dreadful accident".
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Statues/Charlemagne/Charlemagne.htm (191 words)

	Notes on Some Lafayette Monuments
		The statue is of the identical design to that which was placed at Metz by the Knights of Columbus in 1920.
		However, the statue was removed a few years back to make space for a modern pyramid of steel and glass cover to a staircase leading to a lower level entrance to the museum.
		Statue of Lafayette in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.
	xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/laf_mon.htm (1075 words)

	El Paso Times - Behemoth bronze completes 12-year journey to El Paso SECOND TRAVELER NEARLY REALITY
		The nearly $2 million Equestrian statue, called the Don Juan de O ate statue before it was renamed in 2003, is the second piece of the 12 Travelers of the Southwest Memorial planned to commemorate historic figures of the Southwest.
		The Equestrian was taken to a hangar at the airport, where it will remain in storage until it can be installed in front of the airport in early fall.
		He said he would like a plaque with the O ate name on the statue to commemorate a certain period of time, including the Acoma incident, for which O ate is vilified by some because he cut off the feet of Native Americans.
	www.elpasotimes.com /news/ci_3764928 (823 words)

	ArtLex on Equestrian Statues / Equestrian Art
		Carolingian France, Equestrian Statuette of Charlemagne, ninth century, bronze with traces of gilt, 9 1/4 inches high (23.5 cm), Louvre.
		French, Castle at Blois, an equestrian statue of King Louis XII in a facade built in the flamboyant Gothic style, c.
		Model for the Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV, bronze, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/equestrian.html (394 words)

	BRONZE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ANDREW JACKSON
		One is next to the State Capitol in Nashville, TN, one in Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA, and the other in Washington, D.C. The Jackson equestrian statue in Washington, D.C., was dedicated on January 8, 1853, and is located behind the White House.
		The equestrian statue in New Orleans was dedicated on February 9, 1856, and is located in Jackson Square, the hub of the French Quarters.
		The equestrian statue in Nashville is located on the east side of the Tennessee State Capitol.
	www.kirchnerprints.com /bronzestatue.htm (303 words)

	Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is made of bronze and stands 11’ 6” tall.
		During the Middle Ages, it was one of the few Roman statues to remain on public view.
		The statue is such a trademark image that it is the subject of a €0.50 Italian euro coin designed by Roberto Mauri.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equestrian_Statue_of_Marcus_Aurelius (386 words)

	Equestrian Statue of Colleoni by VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
		Equestrian Statue of Colleoni by VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
		Verrocchio s monument of Colleoni scarcely differs from older equestrian monuments which cities commissioned during the 15th century to honour the outstanding services rendered by their condottiere, such as Donatello's Gattamelata in Padua.
		Both depictions have a more or less similar position of rider and horse, derived from the most famous equestrian monument of the age, the classical Roman equestrian monument of Marcus Aurelius.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/v/verocchi/sculptur/colleoni.html (345 words)

	Nathan Bedford Forrest Equestrian Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The statue stands between 13 battle flags and 13 Confederate flags.
		Participating in the unveiling were 40 other SCV camps, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and 10 re-enactment groups in period dress.
		The project was sponsored by The Southern League, The Mary Noel Kershaw Foundation, and all interested chapters of S.C.V. and U.D.C. The Forrest Equestrian Statue and Memorial Park is located on Interstate 65 two miles north of Brentwood, Tennessee and seven miles south of Nashville.
	www.tennessee-scv.org /camp28/Equestrian_Statue.html (238 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Military (Statue of Limitations)
		The most common theory has it that if one hoof is raised, the rider was wounded in battle (possibly dying of those wounds later but not necessarily so); two raised hooves, death in battle; all four hooves on the ground, the rider survived all battles unharmed.
		Washington is home to more equestrian statues than any other city in the nation, and it's significant that perhaps only 10 out of 30 or more follow the convention.
		The equestrian statues of Lee, facing south, and Jackson, facing north, do fit the formula, and the horse of Stuart, who was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern in 1864, faces north.
	www.snopes.com /military/statue.htm (1070 words)

	Statue / monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington DC by Sculptor Clark Mills
		Statue / monument of Andrew Jackson in Washington DC by Sculptor Clark Mills
		This is the first equestrian statue ever erected in the United States.
		Mills had never seen an equestrian statue before and practiced making many little wooden models in order ot get the balance just right.
	www.kittytours.org /thatman2/search.asp?subject=25 (424 words)

	Lawsuit Is Filed Over Private Lee Statue At Antietam
		Chaney erected the statue at the historic Newcomer Farm on Route 34.
		The Washington County Historic District Commission voted thumbs-down on the statue, saying it was out of keeping with the restored 19th-century farmstead.
		The new Lee statue will likely be included in the land to be sold to the park, Howard said.
	www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/lee_statue_suit.htm (818 words)

	Equestrian Statue, Hackwood Park - Eura Conservation Ltd.
		A lead statue of a horse and its rider at Hackwood Park fell from its high plinth, tearing the statue to bits, and distorting the soft metal.
		In this conservation operation, our conservators painstakingly reassembled and reshaped the statue until it was ready again for display.
		The reassembled statue is lowered onto its plinth.
	www.eura.co.uk /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=11 (152 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Borglum designed the statue based on a photograph of Gordon sitting erect on his horse Marye.
		The statue was located on the northwest corner of the square block on which the state capitol is located, where it remains today.
		Reportedly, it is the only equestrian statue in Atlanta.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/statues/j-gordon.htm (201 words)

	Slots- og Ejendomsstyrelsen - Amalienborg and Amaliehaven - The equestrian statue
		The equestrian statue of Frederik V in the centre of the Castle Square was created by the French sculptor Jacques-Francois-Joseph Saly.
		The finishing work then took a further 3 years so the statue was finally unveiled on the Castle Square in 1771.
		The finished product, in Roman style, is considered one of the most outstanding equestrian statues in the world.
	www.ses.dk /397155f0 (164 words)

	Anthony Wayne Equestrian Statue
		The Fund was permitted to mature and by 1934 amounted to $30,000, but the cost of erecting a statue of heroic size, as originally planned, has increased well beyond that figure.
		Meanwhile precisely such a statue had been erected by the Commonwealth at Valley Forge.
		The statue and pedestal were completed early in 1938 and placed on the terrace of the recently completed Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the monument remains today.
	www.amrev.org /htdocs/html/fm/Wayne.shtml (301 words)

	EQUESTRIAN STATUE TAKES WING FOR ``BOLIVAR''
		Still, an equestrian statue of South America's legendary liberator is expected to fly soon.
		As prescribed by set designer John Conklin, the statue is based on one that stands in Plaza Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela.
		She was given a poor photocopy of a picture of the statue from which to work.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950115/01130072.htm (1082 words)

	Forums at the Society - Enormous Equestrian Statue coming to El Paso.
		In looking around, in hopes I could find a photo, I note that apparently the statue has been the topic of some controversy.
		So the statue was renamed The Equestrian, noting that he's attributed with being the first person to drive horses over the Rio Grande.
		Be that as it may, the name of the statue is a little odd, as there's lots of Equestrian statues, and he's not being honored because he was an equestrian.
	www.militaryhorse.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6124 (181 words)

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