Porch Gallery

St. Marks Square, Venice, Italy - The Horses of St. Mark

The Horses of Saint Mark (the Triumphal Quadriga) - a set of Roman bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing), placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. Date: circa 1905

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Bethlem psychiatric hospital or Bedlam in 1816

Bethlem Royal Hospital or Bedlam Hospital in St. George's Fields, Southwark, 1816. Now the Imperial War Museum. Designed by surveyor James Lewis in the neoclassical style with portico and six Doric columns. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London, 1817

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A gift to Exeter Cathedral - statues being hoisted into plac

Statues of patron saints, donated anonymously in thanksgiving for the end of the Great War, are hoisted into position in the empty niches round and above the north porch of Exeter Cathedral. The seven statues represented the patron saints of the Allies and were the work of Herbert Read, an Exeter sculptor. The statue of St. George trampling the dragon underfoot is shown in the insert picture. Date: 1920

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