Monument to Niccolò III d'Este by Niccolò Baroncelli and Antonio di Cristoforo (1927 replica by Giacomo Zilocchi), 1451
Palazzo Municipale (Town Hall)
Piazza della Cattedrale
Ferrara, May 2022
“Erected in 1451 in Ferrara, this equestrian statue would have been the oldest surviving equestrian statue since antiquity, had it not been destroyed during the Napoleonic invasions in 1796. A later copy of this statue is placed on a marble base in the form of a triumphal arch, termed the Arco del Cavallo.” (Niccolò III d’Este, Equestrian Statues)
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