Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (Italian: statua equestre di Marco Aurelio; Latin: Equus Marci Aurelii) is an ancient Roman equestrian statue on the Capitoline Hill, Rome, Italy. It is made of bronze and stands 4.24 m (13.9 ft) tall.
Past Italia: Marcus Aurelius on horseback - Italy Travel and Life
2019年3月4日 · Past Italia: Marcus Aurelius on horseback Posted on March 4, 2019 | by Italia Travel & Life The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius stands centre stage in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio…
The role of the horse and of jousting in Renaissance culture (part 1)
2019年6月5日 · And just because the Italian culture had a pivotal role during the Renaissance, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, even in Italy, horseback riding reached a level of extreme technical refinement (at least for the standards of that epoch), so much so that almost all European courts that could afford it, had an Italian horseman and horses ...
Art: Thoroughbreds from Venice - TIME
1980年3月10日 · The image of the hero on horseback —human intelligence bending brute nature to its command—was central to Renaissance art, and its main antique prototypes were the Marcus Aurelius, an ...
Towards an Economic History of the Horse in the Mediterranean …
2021年11月1日 · the great fairs which were marked by a predominance of Italian merchants, highlighting the reputation of the Lombard and Spanish horses; while the abbeys had an important role in supplying...
The Art of Horseback Riding | Italian Traditions
In 1834, the French archaeologist Charles Texier discovered what would later prove to be Khattushash, the capital of the Hittite empire at Boõazköy, on the
Equestrian statue of Cosimo l de Medici in Florence Italy
Giambologna (1529–1608) was an Italian sculptor in all but birth (as his original name – Jean de Boulogne – shows).
New Books, by Julian Lucas - harpers.org
If it weren’t for the black death, the fourteenth-century merchant Francesco di Marco Datini might have left no trace in history. A workaholic Tuscan with offices from Bruges to Barcelona, he spent most of his time scribbling letters, often boasting that he slept only four hours a night.
Querini’s diary - Via Querinissima
Pietro Querini (Venice, 1400? – 1448) was an Italian merchant and navigator, senator of the Venetian Republic. A Venetian Patrician (N.H.) of the powerful Querini family and therefore a member by right of the Maggior Consiglio della Serenissima.
The statue of Victor Emmanuel II on horseback | Vittoriano
Victor Emmanuel II appears in a full-dress uniform, riding a mount that strides with a solemn, elegant gait. The sculpture is inspired by the long tradition of sovereigns on horseback, which in Rome was embodied to the highest degree by the equestrian monument to Marcus Aurelius, still today in the Campidoglio.