Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Joaquin Sorolla - horses, oxen and donkey

 Salvete Omnes,




today let us visit the gallery of Joaquin Sorolla, brilliant Spanish (of Valencia) painter and maestro of brush work.

perhaps his most famous, and huge, horse painting is El bano del caballo (Horse bath), aslo known as El caballo blanco (White Horse*) - 



.   and his fabulous paintings showing Spanish provinces and folk costumes and customs

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La Fiesta del pan en Castilla - right panel 

La fiest del pan en Castilla - left panel

Extremadura - the land from which conquistadors came from in the  XVI century




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Tipos de Avila


*the horse in the painting is not white, it is clearly grey.

Valete

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