Horse Tamers
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"Horse Tamers" are the colossal pair of marble statues, Roman copies of Greek Classical originals from 4th century BC. Now they stood in the Fontana dei Dioscuri at Piazza del Quirinale in Rome. In th
A mid-18th century etching of the Palazzo del Quirinale by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the colossal "Horse Tamers" are shadowed in the foreground, but the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus (erected 1783–1786) has not yet been set up between them.
The Capitoline "Horse Tamers"
One of the Chevaux de Marly, after the "Horse Tamers"
Bronze Horse Tamers, by Baron Peter Klodt von Urgensburg, a gift to Naples from Tsar Nicholas I
Castor and Pollux
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Castor and Pollux are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi.
Horse Tamers
…excellent condition, but some parts have been replaced. The largest replacement part is the chest and forelegs of one of the horses. Often identified as Castor and Pollux. Their ruinous bases still bore inscriptions OPUS FIDIÆ and OPUS PRAXITELIS, hopeful attributions that must have dated from Late Antiquity. One inscription…
Statues of Castor and Pollux (3rd century CE)
Castor on a calyx krater of c. 460–450 BCE, holding a horse's reins and spears and wearing a pilos-style helmet
Boeotian proxeny stele depicting baby Herakles strangling snakes (top), and Athena Alea and the Dioskouroi above a warship (369–363 BCE)
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Rubens, c. 1618