Showing posts with label Andalucia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andalucia. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2025

J. Hoefnagel - la gineta lancers from Jerez de la Frontera


Salvete Omnes,



1560s Jerez de la Frontera by Anthonis van den Wijngaerde
 a short entry on this May day - from Jerez de la Frontera in Spanish Kingdom.
 Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601AD) was a Flemish artist and frequent traveler in the XVI century. 

He drew and printed many so called map (topographical) views of the cities of his era. 



In these maps he recorded images of riders in various poses and actions - like these two lancers with the adarga shields on the Jerez de la Frontera's views.


they seem to be dressed in  Morisco style, or at least they are wearing a Morisco headgear, while horses' bridles are adorned with large feathers.  

the pursuing lancer has a sabre while the pursued a sword
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They are riding in the la jineta/a la gineta style

horses wear ornate halzbants with horse tugs in the Turkish style

Italian ecuyer and equestrian researcher Giovanni Batista Tomassini wrote this article about a la brida y a la jineta/gineta styles of riding in the XVI century.

Valete

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

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Jose Garcia y Ramos - late XIX century horses & people of Andalucia

 Salvete Omnes


 

another short entry this morning - just a number of works of art from Wiki Commons, all created by a Spanish painter Jose Garcia y Ramos(1852-1912).




Souther Spain, Andalucia (Andalusia), its religion and festivities, architecture, people and horses executed in  pen, engraving tools and brushes of this Spanish maestro native to Sevilla.











this horse's conformation looks a lot like a criollo horse of Argentina, doesn't it?




Valete