Bronze Horseman
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The Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened to the public on 18 August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it
The Bronze Horseman
Head (original) of the model after which the monument by Falconet was cast in gypsum by Marie-Anne Collot. Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
The Bronze Horseman, by Vasily Surikov
Inauguration of the Monument to Peter the Great. Engraving by A. K. Melnikov of the drawing by A. P. Davydov, 1782
Étienne Maurice Falconet
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Étienne Maurice Falconet was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman, in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, and fo
Bronze Horseman
…Russia. It was opened to the public on 18 August [O.S. 7 August] 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. The statue influenced an 1833 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian…
Falconet by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, 1741
The Bronze Horseman, the most famous sculpture of Falconet, representing Czar Peter I of Russia
The Allegory of Sculpture, 1746; Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Pygmalion and Galatee, Hermitage Museum