Salve,
nice weather outside so a quick set of horse images from the XVI century. Ottoman Empire stretched then from North Africa to Persia, from the plains of Hungary to Arabian Peninsula, and many types of horses (Italian 'razza' or race as the concept of a breed was then introduced by the Italians) were bred within these ancient horse breeding lands.
These images were drawn by
Johannes Stradanus, a painter from the Spanish Flanders, and then engraved - some by a Flemish master
Adriaen Collaert and others by a Dutch artist
Hieronymus Wierix, and published by
Philip Galle.
They come from a set of prints titled 'Equile Ioannis austriaci' and published in a book form in Antwerp in 1578. They are supposedly the horses from the stable of
Don Juan of Austria, bastard son of
Carlos V, military commander and the governor of Flanders. A set from the
British Museum, nota bene an image of a
pacing horse, then a set from Spanish Biblioteca Nacional -
Biblioteca Digital Hispanica.
enjoy
ps
interesujacy
wypis u pana Jacka
