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St Mark's Square: an imperial hippodrome? Charles Freeman offers a new theory to explain the positioning in Venice of the famous horses looted from Constantinople eight hundred years ago this month

Authors :
Freeman, Charles
Source :
History Today. April, 2004, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p39, 7 p.
Publication Year :
2004

Abstract

FEW WORKS OF ANCIENT ART have proved so fascinating to later generations as the four horses of gilded copper which stood for 700 years, on the loggia of St Mark's, […]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00182753
Volume :
54
Issue :
4
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
History Today
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
edsgcl.114983310