| "Horse
of Basilica" brooche Yellow Gold
18 kt (available
in silver plated)
price
confidential
CHANGE:
code 65
All the jewels are handmade by Giorgio Berto, shop in Castello 4318 - Venice, Italy. For
information and price: Payment: for internet order only in advance payment by bank transfer (with credit card only in the store)
|
 Horses of Saint Mark The Horses of Saint Mark were installed
on the basilica in about 1254. They date to Classical Antiquity; by
some accounts they once adorned the Arch of Trajan. The horses were long
displayed at the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and in 1204 Doge Enrico
Dandolo sent them back to Venice
as part of the loot sacked from Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade. They were taken by Napoleon in
1797 but restored in 1815 and remained in place until the 1990s and
now sit in an exhibition room, the horses now on the facade of the
cathedral being no more than bronze replicas.
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