List of equestrian statues in Italy
Appearance
This is a list of equestrian statues in Italy.
Frequently represented persons:
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882)
- Victor Emmanuel II (1820–1878), Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II
- Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, 5 m. tall, Roman bronze equestrian in the Capitoline Museums, previously on Piazza del Campidoglio, second half of the 2nd century.
- Replica of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, at Piazza del Campidoglio
- Equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, 12 m tall,[1] on the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill
- Equestrian of Umberto I, at Villa Borghese
- Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Emilio Gallori at the Piazza Garibaldi, 1895.
- Equestrian of Anita Garibaldi by Mario Rutelli located 200m north of the Piazza Garibaldi alongside the Viale aldo Fabrizi, 1932.
- Equestrian of Skanderbeg, at Piazza Albania
- Equestrian of King Carlo Alberto in the center of the Quirinale Gardens
- Equestrian of Emperor Constantine I by Bernini, north end of the narthex in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 1670.
- Equestrian of Charlemagne by Cornacchini, south end of the narthex in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 18th century.
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Original statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museums
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Carlo Alberto at the Quirinale Gardens
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Anita Garibaldi 200m N of Piazza Garibaldi
- Equestrian statue of Francis of Assisi, in the Upper Courtyard of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
- Umberto I by Odoardo Tabacchi, at Piazza Cairoli
- Monument on the Bartolomeo Colleoni's tomb in Cappella Colleoni. Aureate wood by Leonardo Siry and Sisto da Norimberga.
- Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Via Indipendenza.
- Equestrian of Benito Mussolini by Giuseppe Graziosi at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara (no longer existent)
- Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Eugenio Maccagnani at the Piazza Garibaldi, 1889.
- Carlo Alberto on Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini
- Monument to Niccolò III d'Este by Giacomo Zilocchi at piazza della Cattedrale, 1927.
- L'incontro di Teano by Oreste Calzolari, equestrian statues of Vittorio Emanuele II and Giuseppe Garibaldi at Piazza Mino, 1906
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L'incontro di Teano at Piazza Mino
- Giambologna's and Pietro Tacca's Equestrian Monument of Ferdinando I (1608) on the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata.
- Cosimo I de' Medici by Giambologna (1598) on the Piazza della Signoria.
- Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Parco delle Cascine.
- Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Augusto Rivalta at the Piazza De Ferrari, 1879.
- Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Corvetto.
- Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Antonio Garella, 1913.
- Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II by Augusto Rivalta.
- Monument to Frederick I Barbarossa by Felice Vanelli, 2008
- Monument to Bernabò Visconti by Bonino da Campione, originally in San Giovanni in Conca, now in the Museo di arte antica, Castello Sforzesco, 1363.
- Equestrian monument to Victor Emmanuel II by Ercole Rosa at the Piazza del Duomo, 1896.
- Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Ettore Ximenes at the Piazzale Carioli ("Piazza Castello"), 1895.
- Equestrian of General General Giuseppe Missori by Riccardo Ripamonti at the Piazza Missori, 1916.
- Clay model of the horse for equestrian statue to Francesco I Sforza was completed by Leonardo da Vinci in Milan 1492; cast as an equine statue and placed in Milan outside the racetrack of Ippodromo del Galoppo in 1992.[2]
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Giuseppe Garibaldi at Piazzale Carioli ("Piazza Castello")
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Giuseppe Missori at Piazza Missori
- Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Municipio.
- Equestrian of King Carlo III di Borbone (Carlo III) at the Piazza del Plebiscito.
- Equestrian of King Ferdinando I delle Due Sicilie at the Piazza del Plebiscito.
- Equestrian of General Armando Diaz in the via Caracciolo.
- Equestrian of Marcus Nonius Balbus, in the Naples National Archaeological Museum
- Donatello's Gattamelata (1453) on the piazza in front of the Basilica of Saint Anthony. It was the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.
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Gattamelata in Padua
- Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II.
- Francesco Mochi's monument to Ranuccio II Farnese (1620) at the Piazza dei Cavalli (Horses' Square).
- Francesco Mochi's monument to Alessandro Farnese (1629) at the Piazza dei Cavalli (Horses' Square).
- Equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Al Genio del Fascismo by G. Gori, renamed Al Genio del Lavoratore Italiano in 1945, 1938 (destroyed in 1961).
- Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Ettore Ferrari, at Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Giuseppe Garibaldi at Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Leonardo Bistolfi, 1912–1928
- Equestrian of Duke Emanuele Filiberto, at Piazza San Carlo
- Two equestrian statues of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), by Abbondio Sangiorgio, at the Palazzo Reale
- Equestrian of King Carlo Alberto by Carlo Marocchetti, at Piazza Carlo Alberto
- Equestrian statue of Alfonso La Marmora, at Piazza Bodoni
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Duke Emanuele Filiberto at Piazza San Carlo
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Pollux at Palazzo Reale
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Castor at Palazzo Reale
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King Carlo Alberto at Piazza Carlo Alberto
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Alfonso La Marmora at Piazza Bodoni
- Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio on the Campo dei santi Giovanni e Paolo square.
- Equestrian of Monument to Victor Emmanuel II by Ettore Ferrari on the Riva degli Schiavoni, 1887.
- Golden statue on the tomb Domenico Contarini (died 1526), in Santo Stefano church, 1650.
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Domenico Contarini
- Equestrian statues from the Scaliger Tombs, now at the Castelvecchio Museum:
- Equestrian of Cangrande I della Scala, copy at the Scaliger Tombs
- Equestrian of Cansignorio della Scala
- Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Bra
- Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Pietro Bordini, at Piazza Indipendenza, 1887
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Victor Emmanuel II at Piazza Bra
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Giuseppe Garibaldi at Piazza Indipendenza
References
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