I have seen the statue in Moscow, and it is indeed enourmous. The irony, of course, is that Peter hated Moscow and everything it stood for. The more famous statue in the Bronze Horseman in St Petersburg, by Falconet, which was imortalised in the Pushkin poem:
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/monuments/bronze-horseman.asp The base is call the Thunder Stone, and is alleged to be the largest stone (1200 tons) moved by manpower. No, the Bronze Horseman does not have a small head like the English statue. Dan >> I was struck by the similarity to the statue in St Petersburg. Didn't > realise it >> was actually him. Was he really so pinheaded? >> > > Don't know - never met the guy. Apparently he was nearly seven feet tall, so > he probably just looked pin-headed from below. Or maybe the sculptor missed > the lesson when they tell you to exaggerate the proportions of the body to > take into account the position people will be looking from. Michelangelo was > there for that lesson, and gave David an especially large head. > >> > > [...] >> You could have ended up with the one in Moscow. >> http://www.galenfrysinger.com/moscow_peter_the_great_statue.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
