The ancient statue group The Horse Tamers in the Piazza del Quirinale in Rome is often misinterpreted as "Alexander and Bucephalus". An interpretation of their subject as Alexander and Bucephalus was proposed in 1558 by Onofrio Panvinio,Reipublicae Romanae Commentariorum (Venice, 1558), noted by Haskell and Penny, 1981. who suggested that Constantine had removed them from Alexandria, where they would have referred to the familiar legend of the city's founder. This became a popular alternative to their identification as the Dioscuri. The popular guides still referred to their creation by Phidias and Praxiteles competing for fame, long after even the modestly learned realized that the two sculptors preceded Alexander by a century. Charles Le Brun's (1619–1690) paintings of Alexandrine subjects, including Bucephalus, survive today in the Louvre. One in particular, The Passage of the Granicus, depicts the warhorse battling the difficulties of the steep muddy river banks, biting and kicking his foes. The 1979 film The Black Stallion includes a story about Alexander taming Bucephalus that mirrors the events in the film. In the animated series Reign: The Conqueror '' , a sci-fi inspired rendition of the myth Bucephalus is a tall man-eating horse with a metallic jaw, prowling in Macedonia and killing everyone unfortunate enough to meet him. Alexander tames him, and like in the myth he becomes his faithful steed  .
The ancient statue group The Horse Tamers in the Piazza del Quirinale in Rome is often misinterpreted as "Alexander and Bucephalus". An interpretation of their subject as Alexander and Bucephalus was proposed in 1558 by Onofrio Panvinio,Reipublicae Romanae Commentariorum (Venice, 1558), noted by Haskell and Penny, 1981. who suggested that Constantine had removed them from Alexandria, where they would have referred to the familiar legend of the city's founder. This became a popular alternative to their identification as the Dioscuri. The popular guides still referred to their creation by Phidias and Praxiteles competing for fame, long after even the modestly learned realized that the two sculptors preceded Alexander by a century. Charles Le Brun's (1619–1690) paintings of Alexandrine subjects, including Bucephalus, survive today in the Louvre. One in particular, The Passage of the Granicus, depicts the warhorse battling the difficulties of the steep muddy river banks, biting and kicking his foes. The 1979 film The Black Stallion includes a story about Alexander taming Bucephalus that mirrors the events in the film. In the animated series Reign: The Conqueror , a sci-fi inspired rendition of the myth Bucephalus is a tall man-eating horse with a metallic jaw, prowling in Macedonia and killing everyone unfortunate enough to meet him. Alexander tames him, and like in the myth he becomes his faithful steed . In the BBC television series Father Brown'', the bicycle that the character Father Brown rides in pursuits of solving mysteries is called Bucephalus .
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. In the BBC television series Father Brown'', the bicycle that the character Father Brown rides in pursuits of solving mysteries is called Bucephalus