Giulio Romano - Salone dei Cavalli

 Salvete Omnes,

A short but very beautifully illuminated entry -  Italian Renaissance horse in a tranquil glory

Giulio Romano (1499-1546) - frescoes from Salone Grande di Cavalli, for Frederico II Gonzaga in his Palazzo del Te, in Mantua, Italy.

Frederico II by Tizian/Titian  

Favorite steeds of the prince - 

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Gulyas & Csikos - Hungarian cowboys

 Salvete Omnes,

just a gallery of historic and more contemporary horses of the Hungarian cowboys- csikos, their horses, gray cattle and sheep, their whips, and their Hungarian post - all in their puszta (the Hungarian Plain).

 

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Jan Czop (1942-2026) - Pacem Aeternam

 Salvete Omnes,

my favorite Polish military uniforms - 

it saddens me to report that one of the finest Polish military historical artists and miltiary uniform researchers passed away last week.
Jan Czop - author of albums, articles, and numerous drawings and plates showing Polish armies and fighting men passed away on May 25, 2026. Pan Jan is now part of the long line of Polish military uniform and Polish military  history enthusiasts and artists-historians -  M. Stachowicz, Rupniewski, Jozef Lex, Juliusz Kossak, Kajetan Saryusz-Wolski, Jan Niepomuce Lewicki, Jan Matejko, Stanislaw Heykowski, Bronislaw Gembarzewski, Janusz Wielhorski, Stanislaw Gepner, Antoni Trzeszczkowski,  Karol Linder, Ryszard Morawski etc.

Royal Crown Mounted Guard

Among others, pan Jan held membership in the prestigious Polish military historians association - Stowarzyszenie Milosnikow Dawnej Broni i Barwy. 

In 2017 we had numerous exchanges over Fb and via emails about publishing his works in the United States, by Winged Hussar Publishing LLC.  
Unfortunately he was tied by his contracts with his Polish publisher and and the publisher was not interested in publishing the albums in the US at that time. 
Jan Czop was buried in Sanok, Poland on Saturday, May 30, 2026.

concept XVIII century winged Hussars drawings 

Condolences to the Czop Family and friends. His brushes and pencils and his wonderfully well researched voice will be sorely missed.

Polish royal Piast and princerly Pomeranian heraldry in 1330-1360 AD 

Pacem Aeternam

all images from Jan Czop's Fb page - all Jan Czop's copyright

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On Slavic Warriors - published

 Slavete Omnes,

some good news for the aficionados of the early medieval Slavic military history. 

Illustration from the book - Theutonicorum rex 

Vincent Rospond et Mateusz Julecki  translated and Winged Hussar Publishing LLC published  On Slavic Warriors, study by Igor Gorewicz of Triglav. about the Druzhinas (comitatus) and thir battles on land and sea. 
The newly published book 

cover photo by Marek Kalisinski

is available on Simon & Schuster website, on Amazon  , on  the On Military Matters etc.

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illustration from inside - the Arkona Gate

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 some imagery from Wiki Commons about Arkona on the Rugia (Rugen) Island.

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