Prometopidia & chestplate - ancient horse armor

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a short entry - from the Getty Villa, museum in Los Angeles, US - 

Promtopidia

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Prometopidia - Getty description 

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  description from the California museum

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Terracotta horseman from Greek Sicily - Boston MFA

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In this post we will yet again canter to Magna Graecia, where Greek colonists from the ancient Greece proper, between the XI through V century BC, migrated and established city states all over  southern Italy and Sicily, in process of settling, expanding, conquering the native population and/ or merging with the indigenous people (the best example might be the kingdom of Bosporus in Crimea) and  creating great civilization and  plenty of great art.

Allegedly from the beautiful island of Sicily comes one of the extraordinary late VI century BC sculptures - a hunter on horseback with a dog, Sculpted in terracotta, a bit restored, and still beautiful. 

 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts is the owner of this figure. On the linked page there is a bit of information about this piece and its peculiarities.

for further study, drawing and interpreting 

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Etruscan Winged horses, Tarquinia

Salvete Omnes,
again using the vast collections at Wiki Commons I would like to share with you some photos of the Etruscan Winged horses from Tarquinia, Italy.

First, the link to a fine article written by Giovanna Bagnasco Giani from the University of Milano. Also another article, in Italian, on the  analysis of discovered horse remains in the Etruscan 'Demoni Azzurri'( 'Blue Demons')tomb in Tarquinia.
nota bene the horses of the Demoni Azzurri tomb -


Terracotta horses from Tarquinia


 


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nota bene Apulian master painter known as the Painter of Lycrygus and his horses



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