Author: Jacoff, Michael
Title: The Horses of San Marco and the Quadriga of the Lord
Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The four life-sized bronze horses on the west front of San Marco commerate Venice's conquest of Constantinople in 1204. However, Jacoff argues they are also a metaphor of Christ's quadriga, in which the four Evangelists are likened to four spirited horses.

Keywords: 069103270X


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