On view: August 26–Oct. 29, 2016
Famous battles and war heroes have been celebrated in monumental sculpture for millennia. They are featured in equestrian depictions during combat, contemplative before entering a campaign, or in the heroic moments before they are slain. Over many generations, skilled artists have created reductions, or small reproductions of giant sculptures, sometimes allowing us to remember works that were lost to history. In this way, legendary works from antiquity and after are still understood from the smaller works that recall them. With sculptures exclusively from the William Rolland Collection, this small exhibition features bronze reductions of acclaimed military sculptures, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the French Revolutionary Wars.
Image: 19th-century Reduction of Equestrian Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, after Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, 1435-1488), bronze, 19 x 16 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Richard Gardner Antiques, England. Gift of the William Rolland Collection, 2016.
