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Horses by Klodt from St.Petersburg? Yes, indeed, but rather than decorating Anichkov bridge, they are here guarding the entrance to Palazzo Reale in the heart of Napoli! |
|  | From the sunny Naples to the snowy St.Petersburg! The story goes however the other way round. These sculptures originated in St.Petersburg and are one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. Decorating the beautiful Anichkov bridge at the Nevsky prospect, these "Horse Tamer" statues (there are four of them at the bridge), were executed by Pyotr Klodt (who also produced the sculpture of Nicholas I on St. Isaac's Square) and their "reappearance" in Napoli is explained by the fact that Nicholas I sent two copies to Italy as a sign of gratitude for the hospitality shown to the Tsar during his trip there in 1846 (and another two horsemen went to Prussian King Fredrick William IV in 1842) |
Loggia di Lanzi in Firenze? Almost. This beautiful copy is Feldherrenhalle in Odeonplatz in Munich | | |
| | The original loggia Pazzi, restoration completed! |
Ponte dei Sospiri This one in Oxford is realy the case of "lost in translation". Can it be that the Bridge of Sighs in Cambridge is closer to the Venetian prototype? I'll soon find out... | | |
| | Brigde of Sighs, the one and only! |
"the Liberty enlightening the world"... Paris is where the Enlightment values were devised, and so was the NY statue | | |
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