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Equestrian statue

An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'.[1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of rulers or, in the Renaissance and more recently, military commanders.

History edit

 
Khosrow Parviz is standing here. On his left is Ahura Mazda, on his right is Anahita, and below is, Khosrau dressed as a mounted Persian knight riding on his favourite horse, Shabdiz, in the city of, Kermanshah, Iran

Ancient Greece edit

Equestrian statuary in the West dates back at least as far as Archaic Greece. Found on the Athenian acropolis, the sixth-century BC statue known as the Rampin Rider depicts a kouros mounted on horseback.

Ancient Middle and Far East edit

A number of ancient Egyptian, Assyrian and Persian reliefs show mounted figures, usually rulers, though no free-standing statues are known. The Chinese Terracotta Army has no mounted riders, though cavalrymen stand beside their mounts, but smaller Tang dynasty pottery tomb Qua figures often include them, at a relatively small scale. No Chinese portrait equestrian statues were made until modern times; statues of rulers are not part of traditional Chinese art, and indeed even painted portraits were only shown to high officials on special occasions until the eleventh century.[2]

Ancient Rome edit

 
This horse head from Suasa was once part of a large equestrian monument. c. 40 AD. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Such statues frequently commemorated military leaders, and those statesmen who wished to symbolically emphasize the active leadership role undertaken since Roman times by the equestrian class, the equites (plural of eques) or knights.

There were numerous bronze equestrian portraits (particularly of the emperors) in ancient Rome, but they did not survive because they were melted down for reuse of the alloy as coin, church bells, or other, smaller projects (such as new sculptures for Christian churches); the standing Colossus of Barletta lost parts of his legs and arms to Dominican bells in 1309. Almost the only sole surviving Roman equestrian bronze, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, owes its preservation on the Campidoglio, to the popular misidentification of Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor, with Constantine the Great, the Christian emperor. The Regisole ("Sun King") was a bronze classical or Late Antique equestrian monument of a ruler, highly influential during the Italian Renaissance but destroyed in 1796 in the wake of the French Revolution. It was originally erected at Ravenna, but moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages, where it stood on a column before the cathedral. A fragment of an equestrian portrait sculpture of Augustus has also survived.

Medieval Europe edit

Equestrian statues were not very frequent in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, there are some examples, like the Bamberg Horseman (German: Der Bamberger Reiter), in Bamberg Cathedral. Another example is the Magdeburg Reiter, in the city of Magdeburg, that depicts Emperor Otto I. There are a few roughly half-size statues of Saint George and the Dragon, including the famous ones in Prague and Stockholm. The Scaliger Tombs in Verona include Gothic statues at less than life-size. A well-known small bronze equestrian statuette of Charlemagne (or another emperor) in Paris may be a contemporary portrait of Charlemagne, although its date and subject are uncertain.

Renaissance edit

 
Donatello: Statue of Gattamelata (1444–1453)

After the Romans, no surviving monumental equestrian bronze was cast in Europe until 1415–1450, when Donatello created the heroic bronze equestrian statue of Gattamelata the condottiere, erected in Padua. In fifteenth-century Italy, this became a form to memorialize successful mercenary generals, as evidenced by the painted equestrian funerary monuments to Sir John Hawkwood and Niccolò da Tolentino in Florence Cathedral, and the statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1478–1488) cast by Verrocchio in Venice.

Leonardo da Vinci had planned a colossal equestrian monument to the Milanese ruler, Francesco Sforza, but was only able to create a clay model. The bronze was reallocated for military use in the First Italian War.[3] Similar sculptures have survived in small scale: The Wax Horse and Rider (c. 1506–1508) is a fragmentary model for an equestrian statue of Charles d'Amboise.[4] The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior in bronze was also attributed to Leonardo.

Titian's equestrian portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, of 1548 applied the form again to a ruler. The equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici (1598) by Giambologna in the center of Florence was a life size representation of the Grand-Duke, erected by his son Ferdinand I.

Ferdinand himself would be memorialized in 1608 with an equestrian statue in Piazza della Annunziata was completed by Giambologna's assistant, Pietro Tacca. Tacca's studio would produce such models for the rulers in France and Spain. His last public commission was the colossal equestrian bronze of Philip IV, begun in 1634 and shipped to Madrid in 1640. In Tacca's sculpture, atop a fountain composition that forms the centerpiece of the façade of the Royal Palace, the horse rears, and the entire weight of the sculpture balances on the two rear legs, and discreetly, its tail, a novel feat for a statue of this size.

Absolutism edit

 
The Bronze Horseman by Étienne Maurice Falconet (1768–1782)

During the age of Absolutism, especially in France, equestrian statues were popular with rulers; Louis XIV was typical in having one outside his Palace of Versailles, and the over life-size statue in the Place des Victoires in Paris by François Girardon (1699) is supposed to be the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece; it was destroyed in the French Revolution, though there is a small version in the Louvre. The near life-size equestrian statue of Charles I of England by Hubert Le Sueur of 1633 at Charing Cross in London is the earliest large English example, which was followed by many. The equestrian statue of King José I of Portugal, in the Praça do Comércio, was designed by Joaquim Machado de Castro after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and is a pinnacle of Absolutist age statues in Europe. The Bronze Horseman (Russian: Медный всадник, literally "The Copper Horseman") is an iconic equestrian statue, on a huge base, of Peter the Great of 1782 by Étienne Maurice Falconet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The use of French artists for both examples demonstrates the slow spread of the skills necessary for creating large works, but by the nineteenth century most large Western countries could produce them without the need to import skills, and most statues of earlier figures are actually from the nineteenth or early twentieth century.

 
Equestrian statue of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, built 1696–1703

United States edit

In the colonial era, an equestrian statue of George III by English sculptor Joseph Wilton stood on Bowling Green in New York City. This was the first such statue in the United States, erected in 1770 but destroyed on July 9, 1776, six days after the Declaration of Independence.[5] The 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) gilded lead statue was toppled and cut into pieces, which were made into bullets for use in the American Revolutionary War.[6] Some fragments survived and in 2016 the statue was recreated for a museum.[7]

In the United States, the first three full-scale equestrian sculptures erected were Clark Mills' Andrew Jackson (1852) in Washington, D.C.; Henry Kirke Brown's George Washington (1856) in New York City; and Thomas Crawford's George Washington in Richmond, Virginia (1858). Mills was the first American sculptor to overcome the challenge of casting a rider on a rearing horse. The resulting sculpture (of Jackson) was so popular he repeated it for New Orleans, Nashville, and Jacksonville.

Cyrus Edwin Dallin made a specialty of equestrian sculptures of American Indians: his Appeal to the Great Spirit stands before the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston is a well-known relief including an equestrian portrait.

Twentieth century edit

 
Lobey Dosser (and Rank Bajin) on El Fidelio, commemorating Bud Neill

As the twentieth century progressed, the popularity of the equestrian monument declined sharply, as monarchies fell and the military use of horses virtually vanished. The statue of Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese in Canada, and statues of Rani Lakshmibai in Gwalior and Jhansi, India, are some of the rare portrait statues with female riders. (Although Joan of Arc has been so portrayed a number of times,[8] and an equestrian statue of Queen Victoria features prominently in George Square, Glasgow). In America, the late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed something of a revival in equestrian monuments, largely in the Southwestern United States. There, art centers such as Loveland, Colorado, Shidoni Foundry in New Mexico, and various studios in Texas once again began producing equestrian sculpture.

 
Equestrian statue of General Johan Laidoner in Viljandi, Estonia

These revival works fall into two general categories, the memorialization of a particular individual or the portrayal of general figures, notably the American cowboy or Native Americans. Such monuments can be found throughout the American Southwest.

In Glasgow, the sculpture of Lobey Dosser on El Fidelio, erected in tribute to Bud Neill, is claimed to be the only two-legged equestrian statue in the world.

Tallest and largest equestrian statue edit

 
Second tallest equestrian statue: General Artigas in Minas, Uruguay

The monument to general Jose Gervasio Artigas in Minas, Uruguay (18 meters tall, 9 meters long, 150,000 kg), was the world's largest equestrian statue until 2009. The current largest is the 40-meter-tall equestrian statue of Genghis Khan at Tsonjin Boldog, 54 km from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the legendary location where Genghis Khan found the golden whip.

The Marjing Polo Statue, standing in the Marjing Polo Complex, Imphal East, Manipur (122 feet (37 m) tall[a][9][10]), completed in 2022–23, is the world's tallest equestrian statue of a polo player. It depicts ancient Meitei deity Marjing,a Meitei horse (Manipuri pony) and Sagol Kangjei (Meitei for 'polo').[11][12]

The world's largest equestrian sculpture, when completed, will be the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota, at a planned 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high, even though only the upper torso and head of the rider and front half of the horse will be depicted. Also on a huge scale, the carvings on Stone Mountain in Georgia, the United States, are equestrian sculpture rather than true statues, the largest bas-relief in the world. The world's largest equestrian bronze statues are the Juan de Oñate statue (2006) in El Paso, Texas; a 1911 statue in Altare della Patria in Rome; and the statue of Jan Žižka (1950) in Prague.[13]

Other statues of particular note edit

  • Memorial at Vlamertinge to commemorate the one million horses killed in WW1
  • Memorial of Captain Edward Cheney at Gaddesby showing him on a dying horse – he had five horses shot out from under him at the Battle of Waterloo and led the charge of the Royal Scots Greys – the only equestrian statue in a British church
  • Memorial to "Crimean Bob" the last horse to die following service at the Battle of Waterloo, in Cahir
  • The Kelpies, pair of 30m high horse heads near Falkirk in Scotland

Hoof-position symbolism edit

 
Equestrian statue of Confederate General James Longstreet on his horse Hero in Pitzer Woods at Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA

In many parts of the world, an urban legend states that if the horse is rearing (both front legs in the air), the rider died in battle; one front leg up means the rider was wounded in battle; and if all four hooves are on the ground, the rider died outside battle. A rider depicted as dismounted and standing next to their horse often indicates that both were killed during battle.[14] For example, Richard the Lionheart is memorialised, mounted passant, outside the Palace of Westminster by Carlo Marochetti; the former died 11 days after his wound, sustained in siege, turned septic. A survey of 15 equestrian statues in central London by the Londonist website found that nine of them corresponded to the supposed rule, and considered it "not a reliable system for reading the fate of any particular rider".[15]

In the United States, the rule is especially held to apply to equestrian statues commemorating the American Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg,.[16][17] One such statue was erected in 1998 in Gettysburg National Military Park, and is of James Longstreet, who is featured on his horse with one foot raised, even though Longstreet was not wounded in that battle. However, he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness the following year. This is not a traditional statue, as it does not place him on a pedestal. One writer claims that any correlation between the positioning of hooves in a statue and the manner in which a Gettysburg soldier died is a coincidence.[18] There is no proper evidence that these hoof positions correlate consistently with the rider's history but some hold to the belief regardless.[19][20]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Many news websites mislead the height as "110 feet", "120 feet", etc.

References edit

  1. ^ Wheelock, Frederic M., The Official Wheelock's Latin Website, retrieved 2009-04-03
  2. ^ Stuart, Jan & Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida. Worshiping the ancestors: Chinese commemorative portraits, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-4263-4, ISBN 978-0-8047-4263-4
  3. ^ Kemp, Martin (2007). Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–203. ISBN 9780199207787.
  4. ^ The statue now in London putatively by Leonardo himself according to Carlo Pedretti.
  5. ^ "Equestrian Statues". Art and Progress. 4 (8): 995–998. 1913. JSTOR 20560907.
  6. ^ . The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ Dunlap, David W. (October 20, 2016). "Long-Toppled Statue of King George III to Ride Again, From a Brooklyn Studio". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  8. ^ Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) (1412–1431): Statues and Monuments
  9. ^ "Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 21 development projects worth Rs. 1,311 crore at Moirang, Manipur today". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 2023-01-10. Shri Amit Shah inaugurated Medical College of worth Rs. 46 Crore at Churachandpur and unveils 122 feet tall Marjing polo statue of worth Rs. 39 crore
  10. ^ "Manipur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates 122-feet-high Marjing Polo statue". India Today NE. 2023-01-06. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  11. ^ "Manipur: Amit Shah will unveil the tallest statue of the polo player, will hoist the tricolor at the historic site – News8Plus-Realtime Updates On Breaking News & Headlines". 2023-01-06. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  12. ^ "World's tallest polo statue to be constructed in Mnp | Nagaland Post". 28 April 2016. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  13. ^ World's Largest Equestrian Bronze Statue Installed
  14. ^ Dupré, Judith (2007). Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory (1st ed.). New York: Random House. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4000-6582-0. OCLC 70046094.
  15. ^ "Do London's Horse Statues Follow a Hidden Code?". 2016-07-20.
  16. ^ Mikkelson, Barbara (2 August 2007). "Statue of Limitations". Snopes.com.
  17. ^ "Gettysburg Monument Series – the Horse Hoof Question: An Enduring Myth". 20 July 2012.
  18. ^ Adams, Cecil (6 October 1989). "In statues, does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider?". The Straight Dope.
  19. ^ Hiskey, Daven (12 February 2013). "The Way a Soldier's Horse is Portrayed in an Equestrian Statue Has Nothing to Do With How The Soldier Died". Today I Found Out.
  20. ^ Wilde, Robert. . About.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-04-15.

Bibliography edit

  • Joachim Poeschke, Thomas Weigel, Britta Kusch-Arnhold (eds.), Praemium Virtutis III – Reiterstandbilder von der Antike bis zum Klassizismus. Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-930454-59-4
  • Raphael Beuing: Reiterbilder der Frührenaissance – Monument und Memoria. Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-930454-88-4

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This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article August 2020 An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse from the Latin eques meaning knight deriving from equus meaning horse 1 A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue A full sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce and figures have typically been portraits of rulers or in the Renaissance and more recently military commanders Contents 1 History 1 1 Ancient Greece 1 2 Ancient Middle and Far East 1 3 Ancient Rome 1 4 Medieval Europe 1 5 Renaissance 1 6 Absolutism 1 7 United States 1 8 Twentieth century 2 Tallest and largest equestrian statue 3 Other statues of particular note 4 Hoof position symbolism 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 Bibliography 9 External linksHistory edit nbsp Khosrow Parviz is standing here On his left is Ahura Mazda on his right is Anahita and below is Khosrau dressed as a mounted Persian knight riding on his favourite horse Shabdiz in the city of Kermanshah Iran Ancient Greece edit Equestrian statuary in the West dates back at least as far as Archaic Greece Found on the Athenian acropolis the sixth century BC statue known as the Rampin Rider depicts a kouros mounted on horseback Ancient Middle and Far East edit A number of ancient Egyptian Assyrian and Persian reliefs show mounted figures usually rulers though no free standing statues are known The Chinese Terracotta Army has no mounted riders though cavalrymen stand beside their mounts but smaller Tang dynasty pottery tomb Qua figures often include them at a relatively small scale No Chinese portrait equestrian statues were made until modern times statues of rulers are not part of traditional Chinese art and indeed even painted portraits were only shown to high officials on special occasions until the eleventh century 2 Ancient Rome edit nbsp This horse head from Suasa was once part of a large equestrian monument c 40 AD Walters Art Museum Baltimore Such statues frequently commemorated military leaders and those statesmen who wished to symbolically emphasize the active leadership role undertaken since Roman times by the equestrian class the equites plural of eques or knights There were numerous bronze equestrian portraits particularly of the emperors in ancient Rome but they did not survive because they were melted down for reuse of the alloy as coin church bells or other smaller projects such as new sculptures for Christian churches the standing Colossus of Barletta lost parts of his legs and arms to Dominican bells in 1309 Almost the only sole surviving Roman equestrian bronze the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome owes its preservation on the Campidoglio to the popular misidentification of Marcus Aurelius the philosopher emperor with Constantine the Great the Christian emperor The Regisole Sun King was a bronze classical or Late Antique equestrian monument of a ruler highly influential during the Italian Renaissance but destroyed in 1796 in the wake of the French Revolution It was originally erected at Ravenna but moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages where it stood on a column before the cathedral A fragment of an equestrian portrait sculpture of Augustus has also survived Medieval Europe edit Equestrian statues were not very frequent in the Middle Ages Nevertheless there are some examples like the Bamberg Horseman German Der Bamberger Reiter in Bamberg Cathedral Another example is the Magdeburg Reiter in the city of Magdeburg that depicts Emperor Otto I There are a few roughly half size statues of Saint George and the Dragon including the famous ones in Prague and Stockholm The Scaliger Tombs in Verona include Gothic statues at less than life size A well known small bronze equestrian statuette of Charlemagne or another emperor in Paris may be a contemporary portrait of Charlemagne although its date and subject are uncertain nbsp Bamberg Horseman 1225 1237 Bamberg nbsp Magdeburg Horseman 1240 Magdeburg nbsp St George and dragon 1373 Prague nbsp Tilman Riemenschneider Hl Georg 1490 1495 Bode Museum Renaissance edit nbsp Donatello Statue of Gattamelata 1444 1453 After the Romans no surviving monumental equestrian bronze was cast in Europe until 1415 1450 when Donatello created the heroic bronze equestrian statue of Gattamelata the condottiere erected in Padua In fifteenth century Italy this became a form to memorialize successful mercenary generals as evidenced by the painted equestrian funerary monuments to Sir John Hawkwood and Niccolo da Tolentino in Florence Cathedral and the statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni 1478 1488 cast by Verrocchio in Venice Leonardo da Vinci had planned a colossal equestrian monument to the Milanese ruler Francesco Sforza but was only able to create a clay model The bronze was reallocated for military use in the First Italian War 3 Similar sculptures have survived in small scale The Wax Horse and Rider c 1506 1508 is a fragmentary model for an equestrian statue of Charles d Amboise 4 The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior in bronze was also attributed to Leonardo Titian s equestrian portrait of Charles V Holy Roman Emperor of 1548 applied the form again to a ruler The equestrian statue of Cosimo I de Medici 1598 by Giambologna in the center of Florence was a life size representation of the Grand Duke erected by his son Ferdinand I Ferdinand himself would be memorialized in 1608 with an equestrian statue in Piazza della Annunziata was completed by Giambologna s assistant Pietro Tacca Tacca s studio would produce such models for the rulers in France and Spain His last public commission was the colossal equestrian bronze of Philip IV begun in 1634 and shipped to Madrid in 1640 In Tacca s sculpture atop a fountain composition that forms the centerpiece of the facade of the Royal Palace the horse rears and the entire weight of the sculpture balances on the two rear legs and discreetly its tail a novel feat for a statue of this size nbsp Verrocchio Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni 1480 1495 nbsp Bernt Notke St George and the Dragon 1489 bronze replica of wooden sculpture Stockholm nbsp Giambologna Equestrian statue of Cosimo I 1598 nbsp Pietro Tacca Monument to Philip IV of Spain 1634 1640 Absolutism edit nbsp The Bronze Horseman by Etienne Maurice Falconet 1768 1782 During the age of Absolutism especially in France equestrian statues were popular with rulers Louis XIV was typical in having one outside his Palace of Versailles and the over life size statue in the Place des Victoires in Paris by Francois Girardon 1699 is supposed to be the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece it was destroyed in the French Revolution though there is a small version in the Louvre The near life size equestrian statue of Charles I of England by Hubert Le Sueur of 1633 at Charing Cross in London is the earliest large English example which was followed by many The equestrian statue of King Jose I of Portugal in the Praca do Comercio was designed by Joaquim Machado de Castro after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and is a pinnacle of Absolutist age statues in Europe The Bronze Horseman Russian Mednyj vsadnik literally The Copper Horseman is an iconic equestrian statue on a huge base of Peter the Great of 1782 by Etienne Maurice Falconet in Saint Petersburg Russia The use of French artists for both examples demonstrates the slow spread of the skills necessary for creating large works but by the nineteenth century most large Western countries could produce them without the need to import skills and most statues of earlier figures are actually from the nineteenth or early twentieth century nbsp Equestrian statue of Frederick William Elector of Brandenburg built 1696 1703 United States edit See also List of equestrian statues in the United States In the colonial era an equestrian statue of George III by English sculptor Joseph Wilton stood on Bowling Green in New York City This was the first such statue in the United States erected in 1770 but destroyed on July 9 1776 six days after the Declaration of Independence 5 The 4 000 pound 1 800 kg gilded lead statue was toppled and cut into pieces which were made into bullets for use in the American Revolutionary War 6 Some fragments survived and in 2016 the statue was recreated for a museum 7 In the United States the first three full scale equestrian sculptures erected were Clark Mills Andrew Jackson 1852 in Washington D C Henry Kirke Brown s George Washington 1856 in New York City and Thomas Crawford s George Washington in Richmond Virginia 1858 Mills was the first American sculptor to overcome the challenge of casting a rider on a rearing horse The resulting sculpture of Jackson was so popular he repeated it for New Orleans Nashville and Jacksonville Cyrus Edwin Dallin made a specialty of equestrian sculptures of American Indians his Appeal to the Great Spirit stands before the Museum of Fine Arts Boston The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston is a well known relief including an equestrian portrait Twentieth century edit nbsp Lobey Dosser and Rank Bajin on El Fidelio commemorating Bud Neill As the twentieth century progressed the popularity of the equestrian monument declined sharply as monarchies fell and the military use of horses virtually vanished The statue of Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese in Canada and statues of Rani Lakshmibai in Gwalior and Jhansi India are some of the rare portrait statues with female riders Although Joan of Arc has been so portrayed a number of times 8 and an equestrian statue of Queen Victoria features prominently in George Square Glasgow In America the late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed something of a revival in equestrian monuments largely in the Southwestern United States There art centers such as Loveland Colorado Shidoni Foundry in New Mexico and various studios in Texas once again began producing equestrian sculpture nbsp Equestrian statue of General Johan Laidoner in Viljandi Estonia These revival works fall into two general categories the memorialization of a particular individual or the portrayal of general figures notably the American cowboy or Native Americans Such monuments can be found throughout the American Southwest In Glasgow the sculpture of Lobey Dosser on El Fidelio erected in tribute to Bud Neill is claimed to be the only two legged equestrian statue in the world Tallest and largest equestrian statue edit nbsp Second tallest equestrian statue General Artigas in Minas Uruguay The monument to general Jose Gervasio Artigas in Minas Uruguay 18 meters tall 9 meters long 150 000 kg was the world s largest equestrian statue until 2009 The current largest is the 40 meter tall equestrian statue of Genghis Khan at Tsonjin Boldog 54 km from Ulaanbaatar Mongolia the legendary location where Genghis Khan found the golden whip The Marjing Polo Statue standing in the Marjing Polo Complex Imphal East Manipur 122 feet 37 m tall a 9 10 completed in 2022 23 is the world s tallest equestrian statue of a polo player It depicts ancient Meitei deity Marjing a Meitei horse Manipuri pony and Sagol Kangjei Meitei for polo 11 12 The world s largest equestrian sculpture when completed will be the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota at a planned 641 feet 195 m wide and 563 feet 172 m high even though only the upper torso and head of the rider and front half of the horse will be depicted Also on a huge scale the carvings on Stone Mountain in Georgia the United States are equestrian sculpture rather than true statues the largest bas relief in the world The world s largest equestrian bronze statues are the Juan de Onate statue 2006 in El Paso Texas a 1911 statue in Altare della Patria in Rome and the statue of Jan Zizka 1950 in Prague 13 Other statues of particular note editMemorial at Vlamertinge to commemorate the one million horses killed in WW1 Memorial of Captain Edward Cheney at Gaddesby showing him on a dying horse he had five horses shot out from under him at the Battle of Waterloo and led the charge of the Royal Scots Greys the only equestrian statue in a British church Memorial to Crimean Bob the last horse to die following service at the Battle of Waterloo in Cahir The Kelpies pair of 30m high horse heads near Falkirk in ScotlandHoof position symbolism edit nbsp Equestrian statue of Confederate General James Longstreet on his horse Hero in Pitzer Woods at Gettysburg National Military Park Gettysburg PA In many parts of the world an urban legend states that if the horse is rearing both front legs in the air the rider died in battle one front leg up means the rider was wounded in battle and if all four hooves are on the ground the rider died outside battle A rider depicted as dismounted and standing next to their horse often indicates that both were killed during battle 14 For example Richard the Lionheart is memorialised mounted passant outside the Palace of Westminster by Carlo Marochetti the former died 11 days after his wound sustained in siege turned septic A survey of 15 equestrian statues in central London by the Londonist website found that nine of them corresponded to the supposed rule and considered it not a reliable system for reading the fate of any particular rider 15 In the United States the rule is especially held to apply to equestrian statues commemorating the American Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg 16 17 One such statue was erected in 1998 in Gettysburg National Military Park and is of James Longstreet who is featured on his horse with one foot raised even though Longstreet was not wounded in that battle However he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness the following year This is not a traditional statue as it does not place him on a pedestal One writer claims that any correlation between the positioning of hooves in a statue and the manner in which a Gettysburg soldier died is a coincidence 18 There is no proper evidence that these hoof positions correlate consistently with the rider s history but some hold to the belief regardless 19 20 See also editCategory Lists of equestrian statues List of equestrian statuesNotes edit Many news websites mislead the height as 110 feet 120 feet etc References edit Wheelock Frederic M The Official Wheelock s Latin Website retrieved 2009 04 03 Stuart Jan amp Rawski Evelyn Sakakida Worshiping the ancestors Chinese commemorative portraits Stanford University Press 2001 ISBN 0 8047 4263 4 ISBN 978 0 8047 4263 4 Kemp Martin 2007 Leonardo da Vinci The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man Oxford University Press pp 201 203 ISBN 9780199207787 The statue now in London putatively by Leonardo himself according to Carlo Pedretti Equestrian Statues Art and Progress 4 8 995 998 1913 JSTOR 20560907 King George s Head The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Archived from the original on March 22 2015 Retrieved August 24 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Dunlap David W October 20 2016 Long Toppled Statue of King George III to Ride Again From a Brooklyn Studio The New York Times Retrieved August 24 2019 Joan of Arc Jeanne d Arc 1412 1431 Statues and Monuments Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 21 development projects worth Rs 1 311 crore at Moirang Manipur today pib gov in Retrieved 2023 01 10 Shri Amit Shah inaugurated Medical College of worth Rs 46 Crore at Churachandpur and unveils 122 feet tall Marjing polo statue of worth Rs 39 crore Manipur Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates 122 feet high Marjing Polo statue India Today NE 2023 01 06 Retrieved 2023 01 10 Manipur Amit Shah will unveil the tallest statue of the polo player will hoist the tricolor at the historic site News8Plus Realtime Updates On Breaking News amp Headlines 2023 01 06 Retrieved 2023 01 10 World s tallest polo statue to be constructed in Mnp Nagaland Post 28 April 2016 Retrieved 2023 01 10 World s Largest Equestrian Bronze Statue Installed Dupre Judith 2007 Monuments America s History in Art and Memory 1st ed New York Random House p 9 ISBN 978 1 4000 6582 0 OCLC 70046094 Do London s Horse Statues Follow a Hidden Code 2016 07 20 Mikkelson Barbara 2 August 2007 Statue of Limitations Snopes com Gettysburg Monument Series the Horse Hoof Question An Enduring Myth 20 July 2012 Adams Cecil 6 October 1989 In statues does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider The Straight Dope Hiskey Daven 12 February 2013 The Way a Soldier s Horse is Portrayed in an Equestrian Statue Has Nothing to Do With How The Soldier Died Today I Found Out Wilde Robert Historical Myths Common Codes Supposedly Hidden In Statues About com Archived from the original on 2015 04 16 Retrieved 2015 04 15 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