The "Medici Riccardi Horse Head"
An extraordinary bronze sculpture of the head of a horse, which dates to the second half of the fourth century BC.
During the Renaissance Donatello used this as a model for his works, as did Leonardo da Vinci. The head was once part of a full statue of a horse, but the body of the horse has been lost to history.
Cast bronze, once guilded.
National Archaeological Museum of Florence,
Photo: Ilya Shurygin.














