Horse Statue Meaning of Legs Raised December 24, 2013 araho If a statue depicting a person on a horse with both front legs in the air, the person died in a battle.
A horse statue with legs raised in the air is said to signify that the rider was killed in battle. Although this is a common belief among some equestrians and artisans alike, this designation is not...
As Brian Sniatkowski has already pointed out, the number of legs raised from the ground in equestrian statues has no particular meaning, and simply indicates that the artist (or their commissioner) preferred the horse to be posed that way.
James Longstreet wasn't wounded in this battle yet his horse has one foot raised. (illustration from Longstreet page ) The article has a pretty good list of statues that do and don't match the "tradition".
The horse General Sheridan rides is named Winchester … Winchester’s raised leg symbolizes his rider was wounded in battle (the legs of [General Ulysses S.] Grant’s horse [as seen in another Chicago statue] are on the ground, meaning he was not wounded).”
On a statue of a horse and rider, the number of legs in the air reveals information about how the rider died: both legs in the air means they died during a battle, one leg in the air means they died later of wounds inflicted during a battle.
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 of a ...
The well-known statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans (duplicated in Nashville and Washington, D.C.) in which the horse has two legs raised, yet Jackson died of old age in 1845, and the statue of ...
The Horse Statue Code There is a commonly held belief that equestrian statues follow a sort of code, which essentially dictates how the rider died. While it seems like it could make sense, all it takes is stopping to consider just how many equestrian statues exist in this world of ours.
as an art history major, i would suggest that this myth has nothing to do with the reasons as to why horse's legs were raised in statues of antiquity up until the end of the renaissance.
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