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[Sculpture of two rearing horses pulling chariot, in a Roman museum] – Vintage Print

[Sculpture of two rearing horses pulling chariot, in a Roman museum], [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[Sculpture of two rearing horses pulling chariot, in a Roman museum], [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Sculpture of two rearing horses pulling chariot, in a Roman museum], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two rearing horses strain forward in front of a chariot in this sculpture, which a photographer recorded inside a Roman museum around 1900. Chariot groups were a favorite subject of ancient Roman sculptors, who drew on Greek models and used the pose to suggest speed, power, and victory. Chariots were tied to racing at the Circus Maximus and to triumphal processions, so the image would have carried those associations for viewers. Photographs like this one also documented antiquities that were then being arranged and displayed in the city's growing collections.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.
NotesNo. 6482.
SubjectsSculpture--Italy--Rome--1900. Chariots.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168766

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