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this point it will suffice to follow the trails of a horse 

 moving at a tired pace upon a damp soil, and there is 

 nothing: to show that Verocchio had the idea of advanc- 

 ing the right leg in order to put his horse at the trot, 

 which would have happened had he followed the advice 

 of his critic. 



The sculptor has far more slender resources than the 

 draughtsman or the painter, and having neither sky nor 

 earth at his disposal, should apply himself yet the more 

 rigorously to the representation of a movement which 

 may be regarded without fatigue even while frankly 

 limited. 



The statue of Gattamelata of Padua is under the 

 same conditions of veracity, with the exception of the 

 exao-g-eration of the form. 



As we are speaking of Venice, the town of lagoons, 

 in which there is not a single living horse, the preceding 

 observations afford us an opportunity of adding that it 

 appears that the idea of honouring great men there 

 seemed to concentrate itself in the erection of equestrian 

 statues ; no other town presents so many examples upon 

 tombs in the churches, and it appears that formerly there 

 were yet more. I have copied some, they are all in the 

 calm and regular gait of the walk. 



Monumental as to their composition, these works, 

 in gilded wood, have much analogy to one another. 



In St. John and St. Paul we have the Count of 

 Pitiliano, Nicolas Orsini, Republican General, 15 19, 

 sculptured by Lombardi ; in the same church, Justinian 

 Pompey, termed the Iron-armed, Republican General, 

 killed at the assault of Gradisca, 1616, sculptured by 

 Francis Terrilli ; still in the same edifice, Leonardo de 

 Prato, chevalier of Rhodes, Republican General, 151 1, 

 etc., etc. 



At the Frari Church, Paolo Savelli, Roman Prince, 

 died at Padua in 1405. 



In the church of St. Marino the statue of the 

 Republican General Thadeus Vulpio d'Imola, victor 

 of Padua, who died in 1534. 



All these statues, I repeat, are at the same gait, 

 namely, at the walk and on the diagonal aftpui, the third 

 foot of the horse being yet posed upon the ground, 



