An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning ´knight´, deriving from equus, meaning ´horse´. A statue ...
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of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of rulers or, in the Renaissance and more recently, military commanders.
