Salvete Omnes,
weekend almost upon us, may it be peaceful and the ongoing wars around the world will end in some ceasefire & negotiations before this Christmas.
ad rem, Alberto Pasini, wholly XIX century painter born in Italy 1826 and died there in 1899, started his studies in Parma and proceeded to France where he became a student within the so called Barbizon School (with the Ciceris) in 1852, and then he was admitted to Paris Salon and studied under Théodore Chassériau and his workshop starting in 1854. Later, during the Crimean War, he made his first journey to the Ottoman Empire
Between 1855 and 1876 he made many trips to the Ottoman Empire and further south to Persia and Egypt, and painted many marvelous paintings within the Orientalist tradition of European art. He was to paint more paintings for the fine sultan Abdul Aziz but his Ottoman patron died and thus ended his trips to the Ottoman realm.
Passini excelled in painting the monumental architecture of the Ottoman and other North African and western Asian places, with plenty of people and horses going about their business so to speak.
so for your Friday enjoyment please see some of the fine equestrian details from maestro Pasini's atelier -
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| horses in this detail from the Gate to the Bazar |
market scene detail with saddled horses
Horse market in Syria, Ottoman Empire
Horse market's details -
in this detail from the Mosque painting we see some Ottoman Circassian soldiers
and more Circassian ie Adyge soldiers and their horses and horse tack
some cavalry escort
more cavalry escort
watermelon seller with a saddled gray horse and Albanian soldier?
a cavalry fight scene - reminds me a little of the later paintings by Wojciech Kossak recreating the battle of the Pyramids
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Rumeli Hisari
Valete
