Helmets with horses and horsemen

 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.

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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).

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 A fragment of a terracotta relief with two chariot (?) horses- late 6th century southern Italy (then Magna Graecia).

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Finally, the ancient Greek armor,  a bronze belly guard  from theVII century Crete (the MET), from the same cache where the helmet was found. 

enjoy

Valete

Merry Christmas on Christmas Eve

 Salvete Omnes,

so it is Christmas Eve (Wigilia in Polish, La Nochebuena in Spanish) - 

a page from Breviary of Salisbury

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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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.all images are from Wiki Commons

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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

The Magi en route to Bethlehem - horses and camels

 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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until the next time 

Valete

Horses & bits - Jacob Jordaens

 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:

huge shanks on the curb-bits

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rohatyna or boar spear, hunting spear

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tapestry design 

enjoy

Valete

Celtic chariot from a stele from Padua

 Salvete Omnes,

for long time I have been thinking about  posting something about the Celtic chariot of the Iron Age.

While looking at the photos of the 2018 exhibit in Italy - A cavallo del tiemp - on display at the Lemon House in Florence, Italy, I came across this  amazing stele from Museo Civico in Padua. (all images from Wiki Commons). 

The object come from pre-Roman period, when the Veneti people fought and traded with the Cisalpine Celtic people west, south, north and north-east  of their own Veneto. 

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Stele funeraria preromana con carro celtico, da via ognissanti a padova (musei eremitani)  

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a close ups 

Mike Loades has this article on his page - about reconstructing the Iron Age Celtic Chariot. 

On Academia.org there are many articles about the chariot of the Celts. 

eg Celtic chariot in Bulgaria.  

from Chariot to Cavalry.

Chariots from Iberia .

Newbridge, Scotland chariot - on page 60 detailed reconstruction drawings of this chariot (including dimensions).

Celtic chariots in Slovenia. 

enjoy 

Valete