Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers of fortune during the Renaissance, the namesakes of both these ships are familiar in effigy to most U. S. tourists. The statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio, which stands in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice is one of the world's great equestrian statues; several casts of it are in U. S. museums. The statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself...
...jumped Peruvian cavalrymen in a local horse show when she was eleven. At 13, her riding master, a onetime Portuguese bullfighter named Ruy Da Camara, taught her the art of the rejoneador-at first with calves, then with more & more ferocious bulls. At 14, she gave an exhibition of equestrian bullfighting at a charity horse show at Lima. At 15, she made her debut-not in society but in a professional bull ring...
...riderless horse jump higher than a man? To try to settle this footling argument, Manhattan's Metropolitan Equestrian Club last week invited five A. A. U. athletes to compete against 14 show-ring jumpers. With riders to "lift" them, horses have been known to jump almost 9 ft. high. Bareback, few have ever equaled .man's best high-jumping record: 6 ft. 9¾ in. Last week's contest was a washout. Horse's highest jump: 6 ft. 2 in. Man's highest jump...
...sculptor, 78-year-old Cyrus E. Dallin. was finally commissioned to cast in bronze a statue of Paul Revere. One of Sculptor Dallin's appeals: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the ignoble failure of Boston to rear The greatest creation of my long career, The equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with me all legally signed To erect in Copley...