Round 10: Tossup 20

Nina Akamu created a 24-foot-tall bronze statue of one of these animals based on notes from Leonardo da Vinci. For a sculpture of one of these animals, (15[1])Marinos Carburis designed a mechanism to transport the Thunder Stone. Henry Standing Bear commissioned a 560-foot-tall sculpture featuring one of these animals that has been in progress since 1948. One of these animals steps over a cannonball in (*) Donatello’s Gattamelata. St. Petersburg is home to Étienne Falconet’s (“fal-koh-NAYS”) sculpture of a bronze one of these animals, which also appear in a statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill. For 10 points, what animals are featured in equestrian statues? ■END■

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