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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.

Bamberg Horseman (1225–1237), Bamberg

Bamberg Horseman (1225–1237), Bamberg

Magdeburg Horseman (1240), Magdeburg

Magdeburg Horseman (1240), Magdeburg

St. George and dragon (1373), Prague

St. George and dragon (1373), Prague

Tilman Riemenschneider: Hl Georg (1490–1495), Bode Museum

Tilman Riemenschneider: Hl Georg (1490–1495), Bode Museum

Memorial at to commemorate the one million horses killed in WW1

Vlamertinge

Memorial of Captain 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

Edward Cheney

Memorial to "Crimean Bob" the last horse to die following service at the Battle of Waterloo, in

Cahir

pair of 30m high horse heads near Falkirk in Scotland

The Kelpies

Category:Lists of equestrian statues

List of equestrian statues

Joachim Poeschke, Thomas Weigel, Britta Kusch-Arnhold (eds.), Praemium Virtutis III – Reiterstandbilder von der Antike bis zum Klassizismus. Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2008,  978-3-930454-59-4

ISBN

Raphael Beuing: Reiterbilder der Frührenaissance – Monument und Memoria. Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2010,  978-3-930454-88-4

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Equestrian statues by Kees van Tilburg

(with pictures)

Equestrian statues in Washington, D.C.