Street art · Madrid
Photo: Tamorlan, CC BY 3.0
Pegaso
These bronze Pegasus riders crowning a Madrid palace are gilded winged-victory quadrigas straight out of 19th-century Beaux-Arts sculpture—chariot horses frozen mid-rear, echoing ancient Roman triumphal arches atop a modern building.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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