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Bronze equestrian statue of Gattamelata by Donatello, showing a man in armor holding a baton while mounted on a horse, set on a stone pedestal in Padua, Italy.

Equestrian statue of Gattamelata, bronze sculpture by Donatello, 1447–53; in the Piazza del Santo, Padua, Italy.

Donatello's bronze equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni, known as Gattamelata, shows the armored condottiere on horseback atop a stone pedestal in Padua, Italy.

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