Nike, the goddess of victory, shown driving three horses from a chariot on the corner of the National Theater. Amos explains: 'The iconic rooftop statue is, in fact, a copy of the original. Right after Bohuslav Schnirch completed the theatre’s bronze sculptures after years of work, he watched them destroyed by a fire in 1881. The copies that ride above the theatre today were installed on the repaired building in 1911, a decade after Schnirch died'