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Roberto Michel, dibujo preparatorio y modelo para el concurso convocado en 1778 por Carlos III para erigir en Madrid un monumento, proyecto nunca realizado aunque en 1780 presentaron sus modelos, además de Michel, Manuel Álvarez de la Peña, Juan Pascual de Mena, Francisco Gutiérrez Arribas y Juan Adán.
both sculptures executed by Mariano Benlliure between 1904 and 1907
Retiro Park - Madrid
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Monument to King Alfonso XII
Retiro Park, Madrid
equestrian statue by Mariano Benlliure,1904
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Monument to King Alfonso XII
Retiro Park, Madrid
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statue of Arsenio Martínez Campos
Retiro Park, Madrid
inaugurated 1907
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Blois (Loir-et-Cher).
L'entrée du château.
Le style de l'aile Louis XII du château marque la transition entre le gothique français et l'influence de la Renaissance italienne.
La statue équestre de Louis XII surmonte la porte d'entrée. En dessous, le porc épic emblème de Louis XII. De part et d'autre du porc épic, les initales couronnées L et A sont celles de Louis XII et d'Anne de Bretagne.
Le cheval marche l'amble, ce qui est considéré comme une allure défectueuse, excepté chez les chevaux appartenant à certaines races particulières. Cette allure était préférée pour les chevaux royaux, car plus confortable et plus élégante.
La statue actuelle est une copie du sculpteur Emile Seurre, réalisée lors de la restauration du château par Félix Duban en 1858. La statue originale ayant été détruite pendant la Révolution, Emile Seurre s’inspira de dessins réalisés au XVIIe ou au XVIIIe siècle.
La statue originale,installée en 1502, lorsque la construction de l’aile Louis XII, représentait le roi vêtu d’une tunique à larges plis, coiffé d’une toque médaillée plutôt que couronné.
equestrian statue of Felipe IV
Madrid
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Estatua ecuestre de Felipe IV con el fondo del Palacio Real.
statue of General Arsenio Martínez Campos.
Mariano Benlliure (1862-1947), sculptor
Parque del Buen Retiro
Madrid ✶ España ✶ Spain
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Monument to Alfonso XII / Monumento a Alfonso XII
Retiro Park
Madrid ✶ España ✶ Spain
Estatua ecuestre de Alfonso XII, 1922, by Mariano Bienlliure
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Plaza Mayor
Madrid
Statue (created 1616 by Giambologna and Pietro Tacca) placed in the square in 1848
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Plaza de Oriente
Madrid
created in Italy by Pietro Tacca 1634-1640 and shipped to Madrid
moved from the Retiro to this location in 1843.
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Statue of King Jan Sobieski
Pomnik króla Jana III Sobieskiego
Drzewny Targ (Wooden Market), Gdansk, Poland
Originally built in Lviv (Lemberg in the Habsburg Empire) in 1898, the monument was transferred to Gdańsk in 1965.
The monument was funded by the city of Lemberg /Lviv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). It was officially unveiled on 20 November 1898. The equestrian statue of the Polish king was designed by sculptor Tadeusz Barącz and cast in bronze by the Viennese company owned by Artur Krupp. The large Neo-Baroque pedestal of the monument made of grey Ternopil sandstone was created in Julian Markowski's sculpture studio in Lviv. The design of the king was modelled on a Lviv entrepreneur Marian Stipal. It was erected at a garden square along the Wały Hetmańskie Avenue (currently Freedom Avenue), one of the most representational pedestrian boulevards of the city. At present, a monument dedicated to Taras Shevchenko is located in that place.
Sobieski was/ is depicted in a festive national costume (wearing żupan and kontusz) jumping on horseback over a fallen enemy cannon and smashed remnants on the battlefield including a broken gun carriage. The figure of the king faced the south-eastern direction from where Lemberg/ Lwow/ Lvov/Lviv was frequently subjected to attacks by invading forces.
The original plaque with the inscription Królowi Janowi III, miasto Lwów, MDCCCXCVIII ("To King John III, the City of Lviv, 1898")
When the USSR handed the statue to Poland, it was for 16 years displayed in a park near the Wilanów Palace, one of the monarch's residences, before it was moved to Gdańsk. City officials from Kraków and Wrocław were also interested in acquiring the monument but their bids to host it proved unsuccessful.
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equestrian statue of Polish King Casimir in Malbork, Poland
'Pomnik Kazimierza Jagiellończyka w Malborku'
Casimir IV was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under him, Poland defeated the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War and recovered Pomerania.
a son became king of Hungary and through Casimir's granddaughter Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, those thrones passed to the Habsburg dynasty. Those crowns passed via Casimir's wife
Equestrian statue of Cosimo I
Florence
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Piazza della Signoria, Florence
executed by Giambologna (Jean de Boulogne) from 1587 to 1594, commissioned by Cosimo's son Ferdinando I
Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first grand duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. He cemented the family in power up to the extinction of the Medici in 1737
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Bolivar statue
U N Plaza
San Francisco
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