The Mazzocchi Horse

The horse was reconstructed, at the royal initiative, from the endless number of bronze fragments of a beautiful quadriga found in 1739 in Ercolano. The writer Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi from Capua inscribed it on the base of the work when it was exhibited in the yard of the Museo Ercolanese. Winckelmann, a german art historian and archaeologist, saw it in Portici and wrote about it in the famous letter to Count von Bruhl in 1762.这匹青铜马系奉皇家倡议，由1739年于埃尔科拉诺（Ercolano）出土的精美四马双轮战车（quadriga）的海量青铜残片修复而成。来自卡普阿的作家阿莱西奥·西马科·马佐基（Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi）在该作品于埃尔科拉诺博物馆（Museo Ercolanese）庭院展出时，将题字镌刻于其基座之上。德国艺术史与考古学家温克尔曼（Winckelmann）曾在波尔蒂奇（Portici）目睹这件文物，并于1762年在写给冯·布吕尔伯爵（Count von Bruhl）的著名书信中对其作出记述。