Ripamonti, Riccardo – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:31:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Missori, Giuseppe https://equestrianstatue.org/missori-guiseppe/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1712 The statue, inaugurated in 1916, features an unusually weary-looking horse, which the Milanese reportedly nicknamed “caval de brüm” (roughly meaning “carriage horse”) because of its less than martial appearance; a saying “te pàret el cavall del Missori” (“you look like Missori’s horse”) is also sometimes used in Milan to address someone who looks sad. That … Continue reading "Missori, Giuseppe"

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