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The Equestrian Statue of Philip IV was made up by the Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca. The king sent to Tacca two sketches to and Italy, he worked in this sculpture for 6 years . Two years later the sculpture was sent to Madrid from the workshop that had Tacca in Florence. In Spain first of all it was situated in gardens of the queen but later it was moved to many places. The statue was commission by Philip IV. It was made in the first part of the 17th century, more or less between 1634 and 1640.
Four gemiuses of that period intervented to make this scuplture:
This is a very interesting post of the equestrian sculpture of Philip IV , but it explain every thing in Spanish:- The painter Diego Velázquez ,
- The scientist Galileo Galilei
- The painter Martínez MontañéS
- The sculptor Pietro Tucca
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High: 4.00m.
Width: 3.5m.
Depth: 2.00m.
Nowadays it is in the center of Plaza de Oriente in Madrid, Spain.
First of all with this sculpture we can see features of Baroque sculpture. It was very difficult to represent it, because it was based on a painting made by Velázquez:
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This sculpture is very realistic: It represents movement thanks to the cloth fold thanks to the horse’s legs.
When Tucca sent to the king a sketch of the sculpture to the king didn’t like the expression of his face, so Velázquez was worried about this. He thought about what was the best thing that he could do. So he asked Juan Martínez Montañes to do a modelling head of the king. He sent the modeling head to Italy. The equestrian statue was finished the same year in which Pietro Tucca died.
The king is wearing a half framework and in his hand he has a cane.
http://www.memoriademadrid.es/imagen.php?w=1&i=/OTROS/Imp_11998_felipeivplazao2.jpg
This was the first equestrian statue of history in which the horse is supported only in its his back legs. Finally he obtained the balance of the figure using the tail of the horse as a support for the figure, it was possible because the distance between the legs and the tail makes a perfect triangle.
The symbols that have this equestrian sculpture has are two marble plaques on the pedestal. It was then that the two bas-relief panels were added at the base of the statue. One shows Philip IV presenting the Cross of Santiago to Velázquez and the other one is an allegorical reference to the monarch's role as a patron of the arts. The ensemble also includes two large shell-shaped fountains, a figure that represents a river and four bronze lions.
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Finally here we have a self portrait of Diego de Velázquez.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorretrato_(Vel%C3%A1zquez)#mediaviewer/File:Self-portrait_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez.jpg
Sources :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_Philip_IV_of_Spainhttp://picturetouring.com/equestrian-statue-of-philip-iv-of-spain/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_a_Felipe_IV
http://www.madrid-tourist.com/madrid-attractions/Statue-Philip-IV.html
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ReplyDeleteThese are my comments:
You work is good, but you have to improve your English expression, because there are many mistakes with verb tenses, coordination between subject and verb and word order in sentences. And there are also a lot of spelling mistakes. You have to read your work again before posting it. You have to respect the word order in English: don’t translate literally from Spanish. Respect the correct order: subject+verb+complements.
You should also organize the content of the explanation in a better way, because you mix the Baroque features with the data of the sculpture and its construction. The Baroque features should be at the end. The link with the information in Spanish should be at the end, not in the middle of the explanation. I’ve made the pictures bigger and corrected the style of your post. You could look for a picture in which we can see the statue better.
Don't change the style or the font, please.
These are mu corrections:
- The Equestrian Statue of Philip IV was made up by the Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca. The king sent Tacca two sketches to Italy and he worked in this sculpture for 6 years . Two years later the sculpture was sent to Madrid from the workshop that Tacca had in Florence. In Spain first of all it was situated in gardens of the queen, but later it was moved to many places. The statue was commissioned by Philip IV.
- Four geniuses of that period intervened to make this sculpture:
-the painter Diego Velázquez
-the scientist Galileo Galilei
-The painter Juan Martínez Montañés
- the sculptor Pietro Tacca
- Decimals in English are with dot (.) , not with comma _ Height: 4.00m. Width: 3.5m. Depth: 2.00m.
- Nowadays it is in the center of...
-.. features of Baroque sculpture.
- The horse had to be represented supported only in its back legs. This was the most difficult thing(...) He asked for advicee to Galileo Galilei,who was a genius of that period. Galileo told him that the best thing that he could do is to let one part of the figure empty. But this advice wasn’t enough.
- ...It represents movement ,thanks to the cloth fold, thanks to the horse’s legs.
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When Tucca sent a sketch of the sculptureto the King, (...) So he asked Juan Martínez Montañes to do a modelling head of the king. He sent the modelling head to Italy. The equestrian statue was finished the same year in which Pietro Tucca died.
- The king is wearing a half and in his hand he has a baton.
- The bronze was a material very difficult to work with.
- the first equestrian statue of history in which the horse is supported only in its back legs. Finally he obtained the balance of the figure using the tail of the horse as a support for the figure, it was possible because the distance between the legs and the tail makes a perfect triangle.
The symbols that this equestrian sculpture has are two marble plaques on the pedestal.
- ..and the other one is an allegorical reference to the monarch's role
Your mark is 9 for the content, but you have to take all I’ve told you into account for further projects.
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