Camels from Tang Dynasty of China p.1

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick trip to the 2nd half of first millennium AD in Eastern and Central Asia - the  multiethnic Tang Empire and their art.

some of the Tang fantastic  Bactrian camel figurines - 

Bactrian camel and rider - Art Institute of Chicago

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and this Tang figurine from the MET with unusual imagery on its saddlebags

 

Rijks Museum Tang camels 

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 attendant from the MET

Valete

Karl Dujardin - horses et al

Salvete Omnes,
today we are are visiting the art of Karel Dujardin, Dutch artist active during the 1640s-to-1672 in Western and Southern Europe.
Thanks to the MET donations we can see these etchings in great quality and glory. Note the other quadrupeds - sheep and cows.
Dujradin's art shown below belonged to the genre paintings and etchings called bambocciante, and thus these animals are working equids (even the finely outfitted mules, but mostly horses for rent/hire, pack mules and burros) and mostly nags, not some parade animals in full glory. We could say without hesitation that our master Karel was a great 'animalist.'

and some paintings - whole or details - more at his painting gallery on Wikicommons -
ancient European - Greek and Roman - mythology and Bibilical theme

Hippodaimia's wedding

Conversion of Paul

common subjects - working animals, traveling and daily life in the Italian Penninsula

a horse - detail

soldiers - detail

Tivoli - detail

note the size of the servant horse or pony really - traveling on hired horses in Italy

a gray horse - detail

detail from this painting

traveling in Italy, on rented horses?

enjoy this late November day - tomorrow in Poland there will  be yet another anniversary of the November AD 1830 Uprising... 

nice Baroque rendering of Pallas Athena 

ps
Christmas is but 4 weeks away - Natonial Geographic has the presentation showing the history of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.