https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:28:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1106 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1106#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2015 05:13:34 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1106 Joseph Brodsky, in "Homage to Marcus Aurelius," describes the "etiquette of equestrian statuary: "...when a horse, for instance, rears up under the rider, it means that the latter died in battle. If all of its four hooves rest on the pediment, that suggests he died in his four-poster." Up at Riverside Drive and West 106th Street, Karl Bitter’s heroic bronze represents Major General Franz Sigel, U.S. Army, astride his stallion (it is, as the Spanish say, an entire horse), gazing toward the Palisades. The horse’s four feet are firmly planted in the ground. He is going nowhere, as if in protest to his rider’s latest imbecility.]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1106/feed 1