Salvete Omnes,
the very brand new year is upon us, so to speak.
Enjoy your party and revelry tonight.
Happy New Year.
Dosiego Roku - Feliz Ano Nuevo
and some olden Polish postcards from the all but gone era of sending ornate, illustrative and suggestive greetings cards to family and friends.
enjoy
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Salvete Omnes,
the end of the Old Year but a day away - so a little surprise:
a new, special issue of the Cheiron Journal
SPECIAL ISSUE: Arabic-Armenian Encounters in Medieval Hippiatry and Hippology: Cross-Cultural Exchange Between the Muslim and the Christian East.
enjoy reading
and
studying the articles
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Salvete Omnes,
a short entry - from the Getty Villa, museum in Los Angeles, US -
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| Promtopidia |
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| Prometopidia - Getty description |
description from the California museum
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Salvete Omnes,
from the collections of American MET and Italian state museums come these objects with horse engraved, incised or repoussed on the bronze helmets.
South-central Crete , a late VII century BC bronze helmet with horses created through the repousse technique (with small lions incised). - from the MET.
the 500-450 BC helmet with incised horses, horseman and a groom (?) - perhaps Etruscan - from the collections of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Marche, Ancona. From 'A cavallo del tempo exhibit' (2018).
A fragment of a terracotta relief with two chariot (?) horses- late 6th century southern Italy (then Magna Graecia).
Finally, the ancient Greek armor, a bronze belly guard from theVII century Crete (the MET), from the same cache where the helmet was found.
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Salvete Omnes,
so it is Christmas Eve (Wigilia in Polish, La Nochebuena in Spanish) -
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| a page from Breviary of Salisbury |
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, dear fellow net travelers.
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I would like to point your attention to the much damaged frescoes by one maestro Jenez (Johannes) Aquila - XIV century painter in the Arpad Kingdom of Hungary.
The Holy Trinity and Saint Stephen church in Velemer, Hungary, has some surviving frescoes showing, presumably, the Magi approaching and adoring the Baby Jesus.
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[Polish] Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia - wesolosci i humoru, pieknej a smacznej kolacji Wigilijnej
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Feliz Navidad...
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May your horse, dogs and other domestic animals stay healthy and safe.
Again, Merry Christmas - may peace prevail everywhere and the current wars cease immediately.
Valete
Salvete Omnes,
on the eve of Christmas Eve , with all the shopping and cleaning still going on, having decorated the Christmas tree, let us turn, for a brief moment, to the beautiful arts.
So we can take a 'peak' at the Magi traveling to Bethlehem, arriving on January 6th, to perform proskynesis in front of Our Lord. The 'peak' through the art of the amazing Middle Ages art
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Salvete Omnes,
Christmas is around the corner, so to speak, and let us canter to an atelier of a Flemish master Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) from Antwerp, who is well known for his numerous mythological and religious paintings. Unusually for that time period and cultural milieu Jacob had only teacher, Adam van Noort, who also taught Peter Paul Rubens.
But as my blog goes I will limit my gallery of Jordaens to his equestrian themed works:
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| huge shanks on the curb-bits |
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| rohatyna or boar spear, hunting spear |
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tapestry design
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