Warhammer & battle of San Roman by Uccello and mounted combat by Mair

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combat detail from Uccello's San Romano in Florence, Italy

I have been following the Schola Gladiatoria page on Yt for a very long time - 

but somehow I missed this presentation by Matt on the war hammer/nadziak of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods.
In the presentation  Matt demonstrates the use of the horseman's war hammer, presents some pages from Paulus Hector Mair's Fechtbuch, where warhammer is demonstrated - courtesy of Wiktenauer (a HEMA Alliance project).

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Jorg W. Hutters Fechtbuch

 discusses Piero vel Pedro Monte's instructions of this weapon use - in 2018 the writings were  translated & published as Collectanea,

and makes a reference with explanation to a mounted combat scene  in Paolo Uccello' painting, the London version - battle of San Romano.

Matt's description starts at 12min50s

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Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg & his figurines

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today a short entry on sculpture with plenty of horses -

the  figurines by an artist  living and prospering within the Russian Empire, but originating from the old Duchy of Courland and Semigalia, a scion of the old Baltic German family, Clodt coat of arms- Peter Clodt von Jurgensburg. 

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Vityaz

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the horse tamer piece was also made into a monumental sculpture- 4 horses and their tamers are adorning a bridge and copies adorning a building in  Berlin, Germany, until 1945, now in a park. 

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Berlin copies

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Battle of Vienna 1683 - a print

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5 days ago there was the  343rd anniversary of the battle of Vienna (1683AD).

Vienna city-fortress 

In order to commemorate the battle you could enjoy the period print by Justus van den Nypoort and Johan J. Hoffmann from the Austrian national library.  

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Expanding the corpus of the earliest Scythian animal-style artefacts - libre article from Antiquity, Cambridge Univ. Press

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a short entry - a link to the Scythian related article from Antiquity. 

Journal Antiquity 2025 Vol.99 (Cambridge Univ.Press) - article by Timur Sadykov at al,  Expanding the corpus of the earliest Scythian animal-style artefacts. 

 the artefacts from the Valley of the kings in Tuva (the Turan-Uyuk) and other sites. 

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