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...Marco horses at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...bullion, jewels, plate, rare marble and statuary the fleet brought back, the most celebrated work of art was a group of four antique gilt-bronze horses that Dandolo gave to his republic. They were hoisted, as supreme emblems of conquest, onto pedestals above the entrance to the San Marco Basilica. There they remained for some 750 years, except for a period when they were stolen by Napoleon, and when they were taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world. But fame does...
...four horses has been sent traveling again and may now be seen sumptuously installed, together with an admirable group of other bronzes, carvings and drawings of horses, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Horses of San Marco," which remains at the Met until June 1, is an exemplary show. It is full of insights into one of the great images of antiquity and the Renaissance, Equus seen as a symbol of the transactions between nature and culture. The show also demonstrates how the influence of the animals in Venice has survived for more than seven centuries...
...sculptures from the ancient world have been more exhaustively studied, analyzed, Xrayed, measured and probed than the San Marco horses, but it is still not clear when they were made, or by whom. Certainly they are not, as was once supposed, works by Lysippus, the great Greek sculptor of the 4th century B.C. Current opinion puts them much later, in the 2nd century A.D., and considers them Roman, not Greek. If so, the horse at the Met is roughly contemporary with the finest of all Roman equestrian bronzes, the statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol in Rome...
...Marco T. Sanchez San Francisco...