MAKE A MEME View Large Image Italian - Walking Horse "after Lysippus" - Walters 5450.jpg This graceful elegant creature is a small-scale copy of one of the four life-size walking horses on the facade of the Basilica of St Mark in Venice In the Renaissance they were ...
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Keywords: Italian - Walking Horse "after Lysippus" - Walters 5450.jpg This graceful elegant creature is a small-scale copy of one of the four life-size walking horses on the facade of the Basilica of St Mark in Venice In the Renaissance they were thought to have been cast by the great Greek sculptor Lysippus and therefore reduced copies were in great demand The life-size horses were originally from a quadriga four-horse chariot of a type installed atop a triumphal arch in ancient Rome In the 4th century Emperor Constantine took the horses to his new capital Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey In the 1200s they were stolen by Crusaders who brought them to Venice century 16 Renaissance bronze traces of gilding on harness and mane cm 23 5 24 1 accession number 54 50 6844 Henry Walters Baltimore 1922-1930 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1922-1930 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 The Allure of Bronze The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 place of origin Padua Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Gilding bronze sculptures
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