Roman Marble Horse – After the Vatican Stallion

This Roman marble horse is hand-carved from white marble, following the stallion in the Vatican Museums. Muscles, tendons and veins are finely worked, the mane and tail fall in calm, curving lines, and the slightly turned head and raised foreleg give the walking horse movement and tension. Beneath the belly a tree trunk serves as a support, as is usual in marble horse sculpture.

The model stands in the Sala degli Animali, the 'room of the animals' in the Museo Pio-Clementino – a stone menagerie that Pope Pius VI had fitted out in the late eighteenth century, where Carrara sculptors completed and reworked antique marble animals. The Vatican horse itself was largely composed in that period by Francesco Antonio Franzoni around an antique fragment. The base carries the inscription MVNIFICENTIA PII SEXTI P M, a reference to the same pope.

At 60 cm high with a slim 14.5 cm profile, the horse suits a column in a conservatory, where side light brings out the grey veining of the marble.

Each piece is a new reproduction cut by hand after the Vatican model, so the carving of the mane and the veining of the stone differ slightly from one horse to the next.

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