Quadriga
A quadriga is an ancient tank with two wheels, harnessed of four horses of face, generally used for the races.
In Antiquity, the races of quadrigae to Rome proceeded mainly with the Circus Maximus.
By analogy, this term also indicates a statue representing a quadriga, or even a triumphal arch surmounted by a quadriga.
Famous quadrigae
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Mausoleum of Halicarnasse: built towards -350. One can see the nose gear horse pertaining to the quadriga which surmounted this mausoleum with the British Museum (Ground floor - Section 22).
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Quadriga of the large palace, with Paris.
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Quadriga out of polychrome silks, dating from the Byzantine Empire 9th century, visible with the National museum of the Middle Ages (Cluny, Paris). This fabric fragment, representing a victory with the hippodrome, would have been used to wrap the remainders of Charlemagne, buried in the cathedral of Aachen.
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Quadriga moving, sculpture carried out between -440 and -432 for Périclès, on an ionic plank of the Parthenon (museum of the Acropolis); registered voter with the World heritage by UNESCO in 1987.
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Quadriga of Berlin surmounting the Door of Brandebourg, removed by Napoleon in 1806, it was given on the door in 1814.
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