"Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Feb 12, 2005, at 20:33, Lynn Carpenter wrote: > >> If you like big realistic art, how about Nina Akamu's interpretation of >> Leonardo da Vinci's horse? >> >> http://www.leonardoshorse.org >> >> I've seen the one at the Frederik Meijer gardens, and what can one say? >> It's enormous! > >Well, the one on the website is supposed to be only 8 feet; that's no >more than most monuments of equestrian figures I've seen elsewhere.
No, both the one in Milan and the one in Grand Rapids are 24 feet. From the Fact Sheet http://www.leonardoshorse.org/factsheet.asp section: Master Model * Eight-foot clay model sculpted by Nina Akamu * Based on Leonardo da Vinci's drawings * Input from Council of Scholars and Sculptor's Advisory Committee * Enlarged to 24 feet in clay by Tallix Art Foundry, Beacon, NY * Final sculpting by Nina Akamu and team of seven assistants Final Horse * Height: 24 feet; weight with armature: 15 tons * Engineered to withstand wind shear and earthquakes * Cast at Tallix Art Foundry * Silicon bronze, Alloy #872 * Armature of stainless steel, Type 304 * Flown to Italy courtesy of Alitalia * Mounted on a pedestal of Carrara marble * Installation: Milan, Italy at the cultural park in the San Siro Hippodrome * Unveiled: September 10, 1999 * A gift to the Italian people from the American people American Horse * Second casting of the 24-foot model * Unveiled October 7, 1999 * Located at the Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Displayed at ground level which allows easy visitor interaction Which reminds me, when a friend of mine visited with her husband, she took a photo of him under the horse's slightly-raised back foot, on his back as if the horse was about to squash him. And if that humor wasn't low enough, walking under the horse with my mother, we looked up and -- oh, yes! -- the horse is male . . . Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
