Showing posts with label Hungarian horse tack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungarian horse tack. Show all posts

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Della Cavalleria Das ist - 1624AD


 Salvete Omnes,


Bavarian Digital Library 1624 copy



we will just link the grand equestrian work of German Renaissance - Della Cavalleria Das ist from 1624 - by Georg Engelhard 
Löhneysen
. There exists a bit smaller, per number of pages, manuscript with hand-drawn plates from 1578, held by the Austrian National Library. 

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Ecuyer and landowner  by the end of the 1500, Goerog Engelhard served  various dukes of the Welf family, from Saxony to  Brunswick.
Eventually  he bought a printing press , installed it in his estates and started producing his own works through 1625, when they got destroyed during the 30 Years War.
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and from  his very book come these two plates with  six richly presented saddled war horse of Hungarian, Ottoman Turkish and Polish types.

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more Lohneysen to come

Valete

Thursday, July 11, 2024

J.G. Pforr - Hungarian horse, for war and range

 Salvete Omnes,



from the XVIII century horse stable by Johann Georg Pforr comes the Hungarian Horse -


The Sportsman's Dictionary entry - 1770s

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and a hussar with a cloak and typical hussar tack
Hungarian Hussar and his horse, a detail from a large r painting 

enjoy

valete

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Gyula Andrassy equestrian monument in Budapest

 Salvete Omnes,

Halzbant at the throat of Andrassy horse


we have not seen equestrian monuments for a while.
If you ever visit Budapest there is a number of beautiful equestrian monuments in the Hungarian capital.

Old national Hungarian costume and Hungarian horse tack


One of them is the monumental equestrian composition to count Guyla Andrassy,  one of the most important Hungarian leaders of last 200 years.
 Count Andrassy, born in 1823,  served as a military officer  during the Hungarian Revolution 1848-49, but did not participate in the battle and capitulation of the  Vilagos (August 13, 1849) and the capitulation of the Hungarian army commanded by general Gorgey ( general Klapka  commanded the last serious Hungarian army elements that surrendered at the fortress of Komarom on October 7, 1849). Andrassy had been sent as an envoy to the Ottoman court at  Constantinople (today Istanbul). Thus he avoided being executed by the Hapsburgs, for he was sentenced in absentia to death and his portrait-effigy was hung in 1851.
Upon the amnesty to all participants of the Revolution and due to the political winds of change in the Hapsburg Empire he returned to Hungary and became a politician within the realm. Upon the creation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867, Andrassy became the Prime Minister of Hungary within the dual-state. His later political life, since 1871 when be became the foreign minister of the empire, was full of political upheavals and diplomatic 'warfare' eg -  he changed the course of the Austrian politics from friendly towards Russian Empire to openly courting the newly established German empire and hostility against Russian politics in the Balkans and Austro-Hungarian Slavic provinces (former &present day Poland, western present day Ukraine, and present day Slovakia and Czechia)  He died in 1893.

In 1904 Hungarian capital saw the unveiling in front of the Parliament  the equestrian monument to Andrassy by then famous sculptor Gorgey Zala. 





After 1945 and the occupation of Hungary by the Red Army, the Communists had the monument removed and melted. In 2016 Hungarian capital once again saw the monumental sculpture recasted and erected in the Parliament.  




a very large shabraq
perhaps a Shagya Arabian steed 





all images Wiki Commons 

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