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List of equestrian statues in Italy

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List of equestrian statues in Italy

This is a list of equestrian statues in Italy.

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Frequently represented persons:

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
  • Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878), Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II

    • Rome

  • 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, 12 m tall, 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.

    • Assisi

  • Equestrian statue of Francis of Assisi, in the Upper Courtyard of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi

    • Asti

  • Umberto I by Odoardo Tabacchi, at Piazza Cairoli

    • Bergamo

  • Monument on the Bartolomeo Colleoni's tomb in Cappella Colleoni. Aureate wood by Leonardo Siry and Sisto da Norimberga.

    • Bologna

  • Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Via Indipendenza.
  • Equestrian of Benito Mussolini by Giuseppe Graziosi at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara (no longer existent)

    • Brescia

  • Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Eugenio Maccagnani at the Piazza Garibaldi, 1889.

    • Casale Monferrato

  • Carlo Alberto on Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini

    • Ferrara

  • Monument to Niccolò III d'Este

    • Fiesole

  • L'incontro di Teano by Oreste Calzolari, equestrian statues of Vittorio Emanuele II and Giuseppe Garibaldi at Piazza Mino, 1906

    • Florence

  • 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.

    • Genova

  • Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Augusto Rivalta at the Piazza De Ferrari, 1879.
  • Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Corvetto.

    • La Spezia

  • Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Antonio Garella, 1913.

    • Livorno

  • Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II by Augusto Rivalta.

    • Lodi

  • Monument to Frederick I Barbarossa by Felice Vanelli, 2008

    • Milan

  • 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.

    • Naples

  • 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

    • Padua

  • 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.

    • Perugia

  • Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II.

    • Piacenza

  • 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).

    • Pistoia

  • Equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi

    • Ponte Gardena

  • Al Genio del Fascismo by G. Gori, renamed Al Genio del Lavoratore Italiano in 1945, 1938 (destroyed in 1961).

    • Rovigo

  • Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Ettore Ferrari, at Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi

    • Savona

  • Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Leonardo Bistolfi, 1912-1928

    • Turin

  • 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

    • Venice

  • Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio on the Campo dei santi Giovanni e Paolo square.
  • Equestrian of 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.

    • Verona

  • Equestrian statues from the Scaliger Tombs, now at the Castelvecchio Museum:
  • Cangrande I della Scala
  • Mastino II della Scala
  • 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

    • References

    List of equestrian statues in Italy Wikipedia
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