Editing Quadriga (section)

== Classical sculpture ==
[[File:BnF MS Gr510 folio 69 verso - detail - Triumph of Joseph.jpg|thumb|{{Bibleverse|Genesis|41:42-43|KJV}}: "And Pharaoh … made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt." [[Miniature (illuminated manuscript)|Miniature]] from the ''[[Paris Gregory]]'', a 9th-century Greek manuscript, [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]]]
{{main article|Horses of Saint Mark}}

Modern sculptural ''quadrigas'' are based on the four bronze [[Horses of Saint Mark]] or the "Triumphal ''Quadriga''", a set of equine [[Classical sculpture|Roman or Greek sculptures]].<ref>
Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York, Volume 18, by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 1913, page 344
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Their age is disputed. Originally erected in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople]], possibly on a [[triumphal arch]], they are now in [[St Mark's Basilica]] in [[Venice]]. 

Venetian [[The Crusades|Crusaders]] looted these sculptures in the [[Fourth Crusade]], which dates them to at least 1204, and placed them on the terrace of [[St Mark's Basilica]]. [[French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1797|In 1797]], [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] carried the ''quadriga'' off to Paris. They were returned after Napoleon's fall. Due to the effects of atmospheric pollution, the original ''quadriga'' was retired to a museum and replaced with a replica in the 1980s.

''Quadrigae'' also appear on the [[frieze]] of the [[Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga]], which dates to the 2nd century BC.
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File:Ilion---metopa.jpg|Helios in his chariot, early 4th&nbsp;century&nbsp;BC, [[Athena]]'s temple, [[Troy|Ilion]]
File:Lucanian fresco tomb painting depicting a quadriga, 340-330 BC, [[National Archaeological Museum of Paestum|Paestum Archaeological Museum]] (14416577639).jpg|[[Lucania]]n fresco from [[Paestum]] depicting a ''quadriga'', 340–330 BC ([[National Archaeological Museum of Paestum]])
File:Paestum Quadriga1.JPG|A [[Lucania]]n fresco from [[Paestum]] depicting a ''quadriga'', 4th century BC
File:Detail of Mausolée libyco-punique.jpg|A frieze on the 2nd-century BC [[Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga]]
File:Bulla d'oro con tinia, giove e minerva su quadriga alata, da vulci, 350 ac ca. 02.JPG|[[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] and [[Minerva]] riding a ''quadriga'' drawn by ''pegasi'' on a 4th-century BC gold [[Etruscan art|Etruscan]] ''[[Bulla (amulet)|bulla]]'', [[Museo Gregoriano Etrusco]]
File:Bodh Gaya quadriga relief.jpg|A relief of a ''quadriga'' of Sun god [[Surya]] at [[Bodh Gaya]], India
File:0458 - Roma, Museo d. civiltà romana - Sarcofago Mattei Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 12-Apr-2008.jpg|[[Apollo]] as the Sun god. Cast of the ''sarcofago matti'' ({{Circa|220 AD}}), [[Museum of Roman Civilization]]
File:8721 - Roma, museo civiltà Romana - Sarcofago di Stilicone - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 12-Apr-2008.jpg|Detail from a [[plaster cast]] of the late 4th-century so-called [[Sarcophagus of Stilicho]], [[Museum of Roman Civilization]]
File:Echiquier de Charlemagne quadrige=tour CdM.jpg|An 11th-century [[rook (chess)|rook]] from Southern Italy in the form of [[Charlemagne]] in a ''quadriga'', from the [[Charlemagne chessmen]], [[Cabinet des Médailles]]
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