STATUE FIGURINE Taming the horse Russia Leningrad Nevsky St Petersburg

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STATUE is in used condition, but still in excellent exterior condition for it's years - see photos carefully.
Anichkov
Bridge is an arched bridge across the Fontanka River in the Central District of St. Petersburg, connecting the Spassky and Bezymyanny Islands. One of the most famous bridges in St. Petersburg. The bridge is famous for the sculptural groups "The Taming of the Horse by Man" created by the sculptor P.K. Klodt and became one of the symbols of the city. Despite its small size, Anichkov Bridge is one of the main structures of the architectural ensemble of Nevsky Prospect. In 2001, it was included in the list of objects of cultural heritage of Russia of federal significance, is under state protection.
Sculptural groups "The taming of a horse by a man" Ten years before the construction of the bridge, the sculptor P.K. Klodt began working on a group depicting a rearing horse and a man holding him back. According to one of the projects of K. I. Rossi in 1817, the Palace pier between the Winter Palace and the Admiralty on both sides was to be decorated with sculptural groups of horses with charioteers, and on the abutments it was supposed to put two figures of guard lions, resting their paws on a ball, modeled on the Florentine from Loggia dei Lanzi. The model of horses created by V.I.Demut-Malinovsky was recognized as unsatisfactory, and in 1832 Emperor Nicholas I handed over the order to the novice Klodt. As conceived by the sculptor, the four groups, in contrast to the paired Parisian ones, should represent four stages of taming the wild horse: from the unclear outcome of single combat to the complete subordination of the horse to man. Klodt, who from his youth was fond of drawing and sculpting horses, decided to apply the "scientific method" to the traditional theme. He “got hold of horse heads, legs, shoulders from the slaughterhouses, dissected them with his own hands and cast them in plaster, so that they could then be assembled into sculptures” [85]. The naturalistic method combined in the work of Klodt with the romantic moods of Russian academic classicism, characteristic of that time. In addition, the silhouettes of the sculptural groups on high pedestals turned out to be so expressive that they ensured incredible success for this work. In 1842, Klodt cast two more groups of bronze horses in bronze, but Emperor Nicholas I presented them directly from the foundry to the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV Sculptural groups of Klodt at the entrance to the Royal Palace in Naples Nicholas I presented them to the king of both Sicilies Ferdinand II for the hospitality shown to the Russian empress during a trip to Italy, and in April 1846 they were sent to Naples Klodt conceived the composition of the ensemble so that the viewer “reads” the plot, moving from one group to another. The theme "Taming the Wild Horse", according to the author's intention, is revealed not simultaneously, but sequentially: from the beginning of taming to the complete subordination of the horse to man. The success of Klodt's equestrian groups was extraordinary. They were enthusiastically received by both the public and art critics. The author was elected an honorary member of the Berlin and Rome Academy of Arts. The popularity of the sculptures turned out to be so great that their castings in bronze ended up in the Peterhof Belvedere palace, the Oryol estate in Strelna and in the Golitsyn estate near Moscow - Kuzminki
It made of metal
Measures: Height 22 cm ~ 8,66 inches, lenght 15 cm ~ 5.9 inches, width 8.8 cm ~ 3.4 inches
Weight 1.140kg / 2.5 lb
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