The model for the monument was the equestrian sculpture of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. The author of the project is sculptor Franz Anton Sauner. He received an order in 1795 and in 1797 presented a project of the monument. The manufacturing and installation process took 10 years. Statues of the emperor (1800) and a horse (1803) were made separately at the foundry. This was the first such work in Austria, earlier such sculptures were cast in France.
The emperor in Roman clothes and shoes sits on a horse without a saddle and stirrups. The monument was inaugurated on November 3.1807 (but the inscription on the pedestal - 1806). On the sides of the pedestal - bronze bas-reliefs, which glorify the emperor as the patron saint of trade and agriculture.
Opening of the port of Trieste: the emperor orders the god of trade Mercury to release trade (a woman on a bale of goods with her hands tied). Behind the emperor is a merchant who calculates profits and an angel who glorifies the emperor.
In the background a lighthouse and a ship.
The winged genius leads the emperor to Europe (a woman with a book in her hands). Behind him - an allegory of prudence holding a snake in his hand, behind them - a father teaches his son to plow. In the background - oak as a symbol of stability and loyalty.
On the four pillars around the monument - four medallions depicting the most important achievements of the emperor. Among others - the founding of the Permanent Convention of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1782 and the founding of Lviv University in 1784.
The emperor in Roman clothes and shoes sits on a horse without a saddle and stirrups. The monument was inaugurated on November 3.1807 (but the inscription on the pedestal - 1806). On the sides of the pedestal - bronze bas-reliefs, which glorify the emperor as the patron saint of trade and agriculture.
Opening of the port of Trieste: the emperor orders the god of trade Mercury to release trade (a woman on a bale of goods with her hands tied). Behind the emperor is a merchant who calculates profits and an angel who glorifies the emperor.
In the background a lighthouse and a ship.
The winged genius leads the emperor to Europe (a woman with a book in her hands). Behind him - an allegory of prudence holding a snake in his hand, behind them - a father teaches his son to plow. In the background - oak as a symbol of stability and loyalty.
On the four pillars around the monument - four medallions depicting the most important achievements of the emperor. Among others - the founding of the Permanent Convention of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1782 and the founding of Lviv University in 1784.
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