Talk:Horses of Saint Mark

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Restoration in Berlin (Germany)?

The horses traveled across the Alps to Berlin in the 1980s (or was it late 1970s?) to be restored. During their stay in Berlin, they where presented to the public in Die Pferde von San Marco (Exhibition) . Possibly the fibreglass copies were also created then...?

They went to London also, but I'm not sure the restoration happened in either place. Johnbod (talk) 20:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC) Trivia[reply]

On the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) in Berlin is a Roman-style chariot with the sculptures of four horses pulling it ("die Quadriga vom Brandenburger Tor"). Just as Napoleon had approriated the horses of San Marco, he also relocated the Quadriga to Paris(?), from where they were returned in 18?? after the Napoleonic Wars had ended, and just as the horses of San Marco have become symbols charged with patriotic meaning, the Quadriga of Berlin had through Napoleon become a symbol of Prussian nationalism in the 19th century. (It may be asumed that the fact that the people of Berlin were as crazy about their horses as the good citizens of Venice recommended the then still divided Mauerstadt ("Walled City") as location for the restoration.)

This might be added to the original article if somebody could verify it and deemed it of sufficient interest. I think it'd be quite alright to add, as it shows more of how those horses got around (Rome, Byzantium, Venice, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Venice,...) and shared history and meaning with other sculptures, etc., over their 2+ millenia of existence.

DJ Vollkasko, February 2006

Wrong quadriga.

Museum

It says they are now in a museum. Which?--SidiLemine 09:30, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Was there another figure associated with the quadriga?

Was there ever another figure being pulled by the horses? Arthurian Legend (talk) 19:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The so called Horses of Saint Mark originally had a chariot attached to them when they were displayed at the Hippodrome of Constantinople until the Fourth Crusade - whether or not there was a figure on the chariot is something I don't know. --Kurt Leyman (talk) 14:19, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]