Johann M. Rugendas & Jean-Baptiste Debret - Indian horses and riders from South America

 Salvete Omnes,

a very short entry on this last day of April- more of the fantastic works of Johann Mortiz Rugendas of Bavarian Kingdom and some of the works of  Jean-Baptiste Debret of France .

The Charrua people of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. 

. Guarani

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Las Pampas - Tehuelches & Araucani (Mapuche) and el Malon 

enjoy 

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Saint Hubertus Day and a beautiful chapel

 Salvete Omnes,

Saint Hubertus Feast day and the iconography of the saint and his hunt are not new to my blog.

We will stay in the French kingdom, at the end of the XV century and early XVI century

From Gallica French National Library, digital division,  comes this illumination ( of the Hours of Anne de Bretagne)  by Jean Bourdichon  painted circa 1503-1508AD - 

a groom or servant with warhorse 

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Fantastic relief from the beautiful chapel, dedicated to saint Hubertus himself, built in the Amboise Castle in 1493AD . Incidentally Leonardo da Vinci is buried inside this beautiful chapel. 

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Jean Le Tavernier - a Burgundian miniaturist

 Salvete Omnes,

2023 Dog Days of the Summer are in full swing - albeit not for Franch cities, Ukraine, Sudan and some other places in this world. 

I would like to bring to your attention to this manuscript - 'Advis directif pour faire le passage d'oultre mer[...]' via Gallica, French National Library - by Jean le Tavernier ( ) , a Burgundian artist, who worked for the Burgundian rulers and died in Oudenaarde circa  1462AD. This manuscript, originally by Bernard de la Broquiere,  was translated from Latin into French by Jean Mielot.

Bertrand de la Broquiere , the author of the translated manuscript 

detail of the page showing Bertrand presenting a copy of the Koran to duke Philip  

 

duke on a caparisoned horse with lords and retainers, armored lancers

armored lancers & horse trumpeters 

plate armored lancers and a windmill , wheelbarrow etc 

and the famous view of the siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman forces 

coat of arms of duke Philip III of Burgundy

beauty of the illuminations 

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Ottoman aspect of Certamen Equestre - a detail

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more than 9 years ago i posted the saddle detail from the Certamen Equestre  Ottoman Turkish section- of Gallica French national Library provenance.
in this plate there is an interesting detail , in my opinion, worth looking at -

note the sumptuous saddle coverings and shabraques, dydwyks and bejeweled harnes and kalkan shield, tuck sword etc 

 

Namely, this part -

In my opinion it looks very much like a type of a Ottoman Trukish cirit or short dzida like in this detail from Querfurt's painting

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Old Polish horse & tack - Certamen Equestre

 Salvete Omnes,

long time ago I posted this description of a Polish horse breed as observed by an English traveler (1737AD) -

 'These are much like the Danish horse, and are generally about the size of the Spanish Jennet, are of a middle stature, but their limbs are much better knit together, and are of a much stronger make, than the Spanish ones. This horse is in many respects, like our natural English horse, except that their head are somewhat slenderer, like the Irish hobby; but their necks and crests are raised upright, and very strong; their ears are very short and small, and their backs capable of bearing any weight; their chines [shins] are broad, their hoofs are judged to be as good as those of any horse in the world.

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They are very good for a journey, and will endure long ones, with more ease than any other horse.' 

So today I am re-posting this short description along with the images of  horses, their tack and riders' costumes from the famous XVII century Certamen Equestre collection which is  a set of prints commemorating the Swedish royal court martial festivities (see my other posts on these prints and their content via Labels) - images edited from Gallica French National library digitized collection.

enjoy

valete