In 1482 the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro, commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to create the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco, however Leonardo's horse was never completed, (until it was replicated in the late 20th century).
The square is named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia. It is part of the historic centre of Prague, a World Heritage Site.[1] Formerly known as Koňský trh (Horse Market), for its periodic accommodation of horse markets during the Middle Ages, it was renamed Svatováclavské náměstí (English: Saint Wenceslas square) in 1848
Statue represents a dead horse, hung by the legs from a beam and St. Wenceslas sitting astride. It had several ideas of its location, before its final place in passage way of the Lucerna Palace in Vodickova Street, Prague, just a few metars from Vaclavske namesti. Cerny never comments on the meaning and symbolism of his work, but it’s safe to assume that this Wenceslas (Vaclav in Czech) is reference to Vaclav Klaus, former prime minister and now president of Czech Republic
This painting comes from a series of 42 depictions of jockeys' livery colours, entitled 'Brown's'. Each work in the series is like a diagram, showing the costume for an invisible man.
In every painting, the livery colours shown are for jockeys who rode for owners with the surname Brown. Mark Wallinger was interested by the irony in the range of colours registered to that particular surname, noting that if all the different paints on a palette are mixed together, the end result is generally brown. Themes of class and identity are important in Wallinger's work, and he has commented on how it is only the apostrophe in the title 'Brown's' which differentiates between appearance and ownership
Nic Fiddian-Green's latest creation, Greekhead-Artemis, is a 30ft bronze sculpture of a horse's head, which is destined to be the star attraction at next month's Glorious Goodwood horse-racing festival in Chichester. We go behind the scenes at the Liverpool foundry, where the sculptor is adding the finishing touches ...