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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.