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The Monument
2003
Overview
Before Falconet’s monument to Peter the Great, there was only one freestanding bronze equestrian monument with a rearing horse, Pietro Tacca’sKing Philip IV of Spain(1640) in the royal park of Buen Retiro near Madrid. Being the first of a genre is, however, its only distinction. With an oversize tail hanging straight down and reaching the pedestal, the horse rears at a forty-five-degree angle, in a pose that resembles the mezair in equitation exercises. The rider is stiff and ramrod-straight in the saddle, and the baton in his outstretched right hand looks more like the equilibristic aid of a
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