List of equestrian statues in Italy

This is a list of equestrian statues in Italy.

Frequently represented persons:

• Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), celebrated as one of the greatest generals of modern times and as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe, who fought in many military campaigns that led to Italian unification. He was a general, revolutionary and republican. He is considered to be one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland".
• Victor Emmanuel II (1820–1878), Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II. He was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878. Borrowing from the old Latin title Pater Patriae of the Roman emperors, the Italians gave him the epithet of "Father of the Fatherland" ().

Rome

• Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, 5 m. tall, Roman bronze equestrian in the Capitoline Museums, previously on Piazza del Campidoglio, second half of the 2nd century.
• Replica of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, at Piazza del Campidoglio
• Equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, 12 m tall, on the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill
• Equestrian of Umberto I, at Villa Borghese
• Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Emilio Gallori at the Piazza Garibaldi, 1895.
• Equestrian of Anita Garibaldi by Mario Rutelli located 200m north of the Piazza Garibaldi alongside the Viale aldo Fabrizi, 1932.
• Equestrian of Skanderbeg, at Piazza Albania
• Equestrian of King Carlo Alberto in the center of the Quirinale Gardens
• Equestrian of Emperor Constantine I by Bernini, north end of the narthex in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 1670.
• Equestrian of Charlemagne by Cornacchini, south end of the narthex in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 18th century.

Assisi

• Equestrian statue of Francis of Assisi, in the Upper Courtyard of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi

Asti

• Umberto I by Odoardo Tabacchi, at Piazza Cairoli

Bergamo

• Monument on the Bartolomeo Colleoni's tomb in Cappella Colleoni. Aureate wood by Leonardo Siry and Sisto da Norimberga.

Bologna

• Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Via Indipendenza.
• Equestrian of Benito Mussolini by Giuseppe Graziosi at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara (no longer existent)

Brescia

• Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Eugenio Maccagnani at the Piazza Garibaldi, 1889.

Casale Monferrato

• Carlo Alberto on Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini

Ferrara

• Monument to Niccolò III d'Este by Giacomo Zilocchi at piazza della Cattedrale, 1927.

Fiesole

• L'incontro di Teano by Oreste Calzolari, equestrian statues of Vittorio Emanuele II and Giuseppe Garibaldi at Piazza Mino, 1906

Florence

• Giambologna's and Pietro Tacca's Equestrian Monument of Ferdinando I (1608) on the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata.
• Cosimo I de' Medici by Giambologna (1598) on the Piazza della Signoria.
• Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Parco delle Cascine.

Genova

• Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Augusto Rivalta at the Piazza De Ferrari, 1879.
• Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Corvetto.

La Spezia

• Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Antonio Garella, 1913.

Livorno

• Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II by Augusto Rivalta.

Lodi

• Monument to Frederick I Barbarossa by Felice Vanelli, 2008

Milan

• Monument to Bernabò Visconti by Bonino da Campione, originally in San Giovanni in Conca, now in the Museo di arte antica, Castello Sforzesco, 1363.
• Equestrian monument to Victor Emmanuel II by Ercole Rosa at the Piazza del Duomo, 1896.
• Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Ettore Ximenes at the Piazzale Carioli ("Piazza Castello"), 1895.
• Equestrian of General General Giuseppe Missori by Riccardo Ripamonti at the Piazza Missori, 1916.
• Clay model of the horse for equestrian statue to Francesco I Sforza was completed by Leonardo da Vinci in Milan 1492; cast as an equine statue and placed in Milan outside the racetrack of Ippodromo del Galoppo in 1992.

Naples

• Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Municipio.
• Equestrian of King Carlo III di Borbone (Carlo III) at the Piazza del Plebiscito.
• Equestrian of King Ferdinando I delle Due Sicilie at the Piazza del Plebiscito.
• Equestrian of General Armando Diaz in the via Caracciolo.
• Equestrian of Marcus Nonius Balbus, in the Naples National Archaeological Museum

Padua

• Donatello's Gattamelata (1453) on the piazza in front of the Basilica of Saint Anthony. It was the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.

Perugia

• Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II.

Piacenza

• Francesco Mochi's monument to Ranuccio II Farnese (1620) at the Piazza dei Cavalli (Horses' Square).
• Francesco Mochi's monument to Alessandro Farnese (1629) at the Piazza dei Cavalli (Horses' Square).

Pistoia

• Equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi

Ponte Gardena

• Al Genio del Fascismo by G. Gori, renamed Al Genio del Lavoratore Italiano in 1945, 1938 (destroyed in 1961).

Rovigo

• Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Ettore Ferrari, at Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi

Savona

• Equestrian monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Leonardo Bistolfi, 1912–1928

Turin

• Equestrian of Duke Emanuele Filiberto, at Piazza San Carlo
• Two equestrian statues of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), by Abbondio Sangiorgio, at the Palazzo Reale
• Equestrian of King Carlo Alberto by Carlo Marocchetti, at Piazza Carlo Alberto
• Equestrian statue of Alfonso La Marmora, at Piazza Bodoni

Venice

• Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio on the Campo dei santi Giovanni e Paolo square.
• Equestrian of Monument to Victor Emmanuel II by Ettore Ferrari on the Riva degli Schiavoni, 1887.
• Golden statue on the tomb Domenico Contarini (died 1526), in Santo Stefano church, 1650.

Verona

• Equestrian statues from the Scaliger Tombs, now at the Castelvecchio Museum:
• Cangrande I della Scala
• Mastino II della Scala
• Equestrian of Cangrande I della Scala, copy at the Scaliger Tombs
• Equestrian of Cansignorio della Scala
• Equestrian of Victor Emmanuel II at the Piazza Bra
• Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi by Pietro Bordini, at Piazza Indipendenza, 1887

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