Salvete Omnes,
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| Spanish panel - Saint Sebastian and Saint Fabian |
Panta rhei -said Heraclitus. So August 2025 is ending, king of colder and rainier than ususal.
I always enjoy the XV century European art, especially paintings.
Saint Sebastian (protector or defender against plague etc, patron of archers and athletes) was a popular saint of the Catholic Church during the period, many altar pieces had been painted during that great century, when Europe moved from chivalry to global exploration (reaching the Americas and South and Eastern Asia).
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| German altar painting from Nuremberg, 1487AD |
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| a chestnut with a star & stripe, and a snip on its face (three socks are visible) , and a grey in a background. Horses have no forelocks |
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Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger painted this retable.
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| grey horses, and one sorrel on the opposite side |
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| German painting - perhaps the very end of the century |
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| Andrea Previtali - Saint Sebastian with a donor in a background |
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| the donor is portrayed training his dextrarius , destrier being a grey horse, while another destrier bay or chestnut horse held in the background by a groom. |
enjoy
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