Eight foot master model in plaster.
From this size the twenty four foot
El Cavallo was enlarged.
The head is lowered onto Leonardo
da Vinci's Horse during assembly
at Tallix Art Foundry in Beacon, NY.
The twenty-four foot sculpture was fully
assembled at Tallix before it was
disassembled into seven pieces, then
crated and shipped To Milan, Italy
for final installation.
Unveiling ceremonies in Milan, Italy,
September 10, 1999
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Charles Dent,
airline pilot, collector and amateur sculptor, left instructions before
his death the same year for Tallix to enlarge and cast in bronze a
colossal twenty-four foot stallion based on the notebooks and drawings
of Leonardo da Vinci.
James Cox selected
the project as an ideal
focus for his art marketing acumen and the unmatched resources of the
Tallix
Art Foundry. A three- year effort ensued with Cox director of
sales,
marketing and worldwide promotion.
Since 1977,
Leonardo’s dream to create a massive bronze horse, Il Cavallo,
had been resuscitated by Charles Dent as a symbol of the power of
creativity and the importance of the Italian Renaissance. From
the time Dent first realized that this audacious dream was indeed
possible to complete, he envisioned that The Horse would be a gift from
American friends to the citizens of Italy…a gesture of good will
between nations.
Sculptor Nina Akamu
and a team of assistants
ultimately brought the proud beast to artistic fruition, and the final
casting was installed in Milan, Italy in 1999. In fact, the
unveiling
celebration occurred on September 10, 1999…five hundred years (to the
day)
from the date that invading French armies destroyed Leonardo’s famous
original
clay and stucco model.
Today, Tallix,
Leonardo da Vinci’s Horse
Inc (the official project sponsor) and James Cox Gallery are continuing
to raise funds for an art education program and maintenance fund for
the
Milan monument by offering a series of limited edition bronze casts of
<Il Cavallo>. Each piece is hand made at Tallix.
Sizes range
from twelve feet to ten inches.
Please contact us if
we may provide further
information about any aspect of this historic project and the limited
edition
offerings. We have an illustrated four-page brochure available,
which
you may request, through our web site’s Guest
Book section.
Click here
for sizes, prices and delivery information
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