favorite equestrian statue
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Post your favorite equestrian statues ... perhaps with some informations about who is sitting on that horse and why (xtra bonus for the name of the horse)
Prague: Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
Vienna: Archduke Charles, Duke of Austria-Teschen
>>1200550
kek where is that?
Dresden: Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Statue in my country of Macedonia of our hero Alexander the Great.
Bamberg, Bavaria: Unknown Rider (maybe Stephan of Hungary)
Bodenwerder, Germany: Baron Munchhausen, Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg
Munich: Maximilian I, Elector and King of Bavaria
>>1200562
>Macedonia
Whats it like living in a fake country named after a people you have no relation to?
Paris: Louis XIV, King of France
>>1200545
>having a statue of a mass-murdering genocidal rapist
wtf i hate mongolia now
>>1200600
no ones cares ... but the statue is great
>>1200586
and btw: all the statesmen, politicians or so called leaders of today even can´t simple sit on a horse!
Berlin: Frederick II, King of Prussia
Marcus Aurelius
Prague, Wencel on wrong side of horse
El Cid
Richard and Saladin in Jerusalem
Napoleon
statue in Switzerland
Windhoeck, Namibia, South-West Africa ... statue was removed
Peter the Great, St. Petersburb.
The statue is also know as Bronze Horseman
Yuriy Dolgorukiy, founder of Moscow
Alexander Nevskiy, defender of Rus' lands
>>1200586
>you have no relation to?
Only as much as the Greeks have
Fun fact: Having the horse's two front legs in the air means, traditionally, that the person died having sex.
>>1200548
GOOD KING WENCESLAUS WENT OUT
>>1201232
on the feast of steeephen
>>1200554
Outside of Nashville, was commissioned by the attorney who defended MLK's assassin.
>>1201183
In what culture? I seriously doubt that's universal.
Surprised it hasn't been posted yet.
Masashige Kusunoki
>>1203162
Someone needs to smash that fucking statue in a million pieces.
Gattamelata, Donatello, Florence
>>1203299
Excuse me. *Padua.
They're never going to finish this are they
>>1203128
He's having you on.
It means he died in battle
>>1203162
oh shit poland what are you doing
>>1204929
I am pretty sure that's the Czech Republic.
>>1201690
That has to be one of the worst fames by vague association.
>>1203162
Is he fucking the horse?
>>1200578
>Where's the rest of my horse?
Kek
General Theodoros Kolokotronis
>>1201158
Can you read this? I can.
>>1200545
I really admire the statue of US Grant, which depicts him sitting atop his favourite horse Cincinnati, located in Washington. It's strange how few people know about it.
>>1200545
This statue of Washington outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art
>>1212563
Different angle where you can see the Museum of Art in the background
>>1212563
>>1212564
It's also facing City Hall, ignore William Penn's penis
>>1212577
Fuck it, anotha one
>>1200600
I hope some people don;t think this way
>>1200586
it's still a cool name can't blame em really
nothing better than Wellington in Glasgow with his traffic cone hat since 1985
Estátua de Artigas - Montevideo, Uruguay
>>1212605
poor wellington ... he did his duty
>>1212605
I am the only one this pisses off? People should be more respectful to our nation's heroes instead of using their statues as a platform for a shitty joke.
>>1214176
On the count that it's been there for over 30 years now I think the traffic cone has become a part of cultural history and deserves a degree of appreciation as well.
>>1214176
Making light of is a form of celebration.
>>1209733
Nah that's a bunch of gibberish.
>>1214176
I think that´s a kind of humour on the island :D
