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The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers"—often identified as Castor and Pollux—have stood since antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome. Napoleon's agents wanted to include them among the classical booty removed from Rome after the 1797 Treaty of Tolentino, but they were too large to be buried or to be moved very far. They are fourth-century Roman copies of Greek originals. They gave to the Quirinal its medieval name Monte Cavallo (Italian for 'Horse Mountain'), which lingered into the nineteenth century. Their coarseness has been noted, while the vigor—notably that of the horses—has been admired. The Colossi of the Quirinal are the original exponents of this theme of dominating power, which has appealed to powerful patrons since the seventeenth cen

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  • Τα αγάλματα των Κάστορα και Πολυδεύκη είναι κολοσσιαίο γλυπτό σύμπλεγμα και αριστούργημα της γλυπτικής τέχνης της αρχαίας Ελλάδας. Τα σημερινά γλυπτά είναι αντίγραφα αρχαιότερων, που με την σειρά τους ήταν αντίγραφα των γνησίων, μπρούτζινων ανδριάντων. Σήμερα βρίσκονται στην Ρωμαϊκή πλατεία Quirinal που λόγω του συμπλέγματος αυτού ονομάζεται κοινώς Μόντε Καβάλλο, δηλαδή λόφος των ίππων. (el)
  • The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers"—often identified as Castor and Pollux—have stood since antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome. Napoleon's agents wanted to include them among the classical booty removed from Rome after the 1797 Treaty of Tolentino, but they were too large to be buried or to be moved very far. They are fourth-century Roman copies of Greek originals. They gave to the Quirinal its medieval name Monte Cavallo (Italian for 'Horse Mountain'), which lingered into the nineteenth century. Their coarseness has been noted, while the vigor—notably that of the horses—has been admired. The Colossi of the Quirinal are the original exponents of this theme of dominating power, which has appealed to powerful patrons since the seventeenth century, from Marly-le-Roi to Saint Petersburg. The huge sculptures were noted in the medieval guidebook for pilgrims, Mirabilia Urbis Romae. Their ruinous bases still bore inscriptions OPUS FIDIÆ and OPUS PRAXITELIS, hopeful attributions that must have dated from Late Antiquity (Haskell and Penny 1981, p 136). The Mirabilia confidently reported that these were "the names of two seers who had arrived in Rome under Tiberius, naked, to tell the 'bare truth' that the princes of the world were like horses which had not yet been mounted by a true king." Between 1589 and 1591, Sixtus V had them restored and set on new pedestals flanking a fountain, another engineering triumph for Domenico Fontana, who had moved and re-erected the obelisk in Piazza San Pietro. In 1783-86 they were re-set at an angle, and an obelisk, which had recently been found at the Mausoleum of Augustus, was re-erected between them. (The present granite basin, which had served for watering cattle in the Roman Forum was set between them in 1818.) An interpretation of their subject as Alexander and Bucephalus was proposed in 1558 by Onofrio Panvinio, who suggested that Constantine had removed them from Alexandria, where they would have referred to the familiar legend of the city's founder. This became a popular alternative to their identification as the Dioscuri. The popular guides still referred to their creation by Phidias and Praxiteles competing for fame, long after even the modestly learned realized that the two sculptors preceded Alexander by a century. (en)
  • Zaldi hezleak jatorriz Erromako Quirinalean zeuden estatua erraldoiak ziren. Antzinakotasun handia zuten, Antzinako Erromako garaikoak baitziren. Dena dela, jatorria zaharrago da zeren eta Antzinako Greziaren eredua jarraitu bazuten. Eskulturetan agertzen ziren pertsonaiak Kastor eta Polux edo Dioskuroak ziren. Lan hauek Erdi Aroko lanetan oso aipatuak izan ziren, adibidez, liburuan. Eredua askotan errepikatua izan da; esaterako, Frantzian, 1743 eta 1745 artean, taldea egin zuen. (eu)
  • Les dompteurs de chevaux sont à l'origine une paire de statues colossales placées sur le Quirinal, à Rome, et remontant à l'Antiquité romaine. Elles sont généralement identifiées aux Dioscures, Castor et Pollux. Ces statues gigantesques sont plusieurs fois remarquées dans des ouvrages médiévaux Leur modèle est copié de nombreuses fois, servant d'inspiration par exemple aux chevaux de Marly. (fr)
  • Domadores de Cavalos é um famoso par de estátuas colossais, geralmente identificadas como sendo dos irmãos Castor e Pólux, que desde a Antiguidade estão perto do local das antigas Termas de Constantino, no monte Quirinal em Roma. Os agentes de Napoleão queriam incluí-las entre as diversas obras de arte clássicas removidas de Roma depois do Tratado de Tolentino (1797), mas elas se revelaram grandes demais para serem movidas por longas distâncias. Sabe-se que elas são cópias romanas do século IV de originais gregos. Por causa delas, o monte Quirinal era conhecido, durante a Idade Média, como monte Cavallo, uma nomenclatura ainda utilizada no século XIX. (pt)
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  • Τα αγάλματα των Κάστορα και Πολυδεύκη είναι κολοσσιαίο γλυπτό σύμπλεγμα και αριστούργημα της γλυπτικής τέχνης της αρχαίας Ελλάδας. Τα σημερινά γλυπτά είναι αντίγραφα αρχαιότερων, που με την σειρά τους ήταν αντίγραφα των γνησίων, μπρούτζινων ανδριάντων. Σήμερα βρίσκονται στην Ρωμαϊκή πλατεία Quirinal που λόγω του συμπλέγματος αυτού ονομάζεται κοινώς Μόντε Καβάλλο, δηλαδή λόφος των ίππων. (el)
  • Zaldi hezleak jatorriz Erromako Quirinalean zeuden estatua erraldoiak ziren. Antzinakotasun handia zuten, Antzinako Erromako garaikoak baitziren. Dena dela, jatorria zaharrago da zeren eta Antzinako Greziaren eredua jarraitu bazuten. Eskulturetan agertzen ziren pertsonaiak Kastor eta Polux edo Dioskuroak ziren. Lan hauek Erdi Aroko lanetan oso aipatuak izan ziren, adibidez, liburuan. Eredua askotan errepikatua izan da; esaterako, Frantzian, 1743 eta 1745 artean, taldea egin zuen. (eu)
  • Les dompteurs de chevaux sont à l'origine une paire de statues colossales placées sur le Quirinal, à Rome, et remontant à l'Antiquité romaine. Elles sont généralement identifiées aux Dioscures, Castor et Pollux. Ces statues gigantesques sont plusieurs fois remarquées dans des ouvrages médiévaux Leur modèle est copié de nombreuses fois, servant d'inspiration par exemple aux chevaux de Marly. (fr)
  • The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers"—often identified as Castor and Pollux—have stood since antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome. Napoleon's agents wanted to include them among the classical booty removed from Rome after the 1797 Treaty of Tolentino, but they were too large to be buried or to be moved very far. They are fourth-century Roman copies of Greek originals. They gave to the Quirinal its medieval name Monte Cavallo (Italian for 'Horse Mountain'), which lingered into the nineteenth century. Their coarseness has been noted, while the vigor—notably that of the horses—has been admired. The Colossi of the Quirinal are the original exponents of this theme of dominating power, which has appealed to powerful patrons since the seventeenth cen (en)
  • Domadores de Cavalos é um famoso par de estátuas colossais, geralmente identificadas como sendo dos irmãos Castor e Pólux, que desde a Antiguidade estão perto do local das antigas Termas de Constantino, no monte Quirinal em Roma. Os agentes de Napoleão queriam incluí-las entre as diversas obras de arte clássicas removidas de Roma depois do Tratado de Tolentino (1797), mas elas se revelaram grandes demais para serem movidas por longas distâncias. Sabe-se que elas são cópias romanas do século IV de originais gregos. (pt)
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  • Διόσκουροι του Μόντε Καβάλλο (el)
  • Zaldi hezleak (eu)
  • Horse Tamers (en)
  • Dompteurs de chevaux (fr)
  • Domadores de Cavalos (pt)
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