It was cast in 1453, and was the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.
The granite is from Gettysburg and Vermont, with the bronze cast at the Hammaker Brothers Foundry.
A magnificent two-ton bronze Buddha cast in 1790, surmounted by a halo, breaks all the rules.
Also in 1917, a model was used to make the original three bronze casts:
The light from the fire gave a bronze cast to his hard, lithe profile.
The end of the shaft was flared with very shallow self conks, although some arrows possessed bronze cast conks.
In 2000, a bronze cast version of the work cast circa 1950-1960 sold at Christies for $64,625.
It is disappointing, however, to discover that the two life-size and four half-size sculptures in this show are actually craftily patinated bronzes cast from original wooden constructions.
The truck hood ornament was a die cast, chrome plated, 5 pound bear or a bronze cast bear.
These are startling works, so much more sculpturally and psychologically alive than the bronze casts from them suggest.