Salvete Omnes,
finalizing works of Giovanni Fattori - his non-military equestrian etc paintings - lots of beauty in them... loveliness
Valete
Showing posts with label XIX art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XIX art. Show all posts
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Hungarian Plain - puszta, horses and grey cattle - Karoly Lotz
Salvete Omnes,
a short entry but before I go to the topic a little remainder and comment.
Namely, this week there passed the 75 anniversary of the end of World War II (for the Soviets and post-Soviet states it was and is May 9, for the West it was and is May 8, 1945), it culminated with the capture of Berlin and German unconditional surrender.
Poles were part of the conquering Soviet Red Army 'fronts,' and Stalin allowed to raise our Polish flag over the Berlin's vicory column by the Polish army soldiers who took part in the conquest of Berlin.
The Soviet Union flag raising was documented with utomost care and pomp as a part of the Stalin's epic (more than 20 million of the Soviet Union citizens died in that war, while Poland was reduced from 35 million citizens in 1939 to little over the 22 million in 1946)- some victory they could say, couldn't they?...
It was a great victory for the Soviet Union and USA, while Poland was left by the allies on the other side of the Iron Curtain, and then the citizen were outright robbed of their wealth, all in broad daylight and with the West blessing) in post-1989 'transformation.'
I am fond of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II - after all she is a horse aficionado and eg she still rode her horses before this corona calamity - and Friday she addressed her subjects to celebrate and commemorate the 75th anniversary, and to pay tribute to her father and her people.
Too bad Polish soldiers (after all Poland was attacked on Sept.1 1939 by the Germany's Wehrmacht and on Sept 17, 1939 by Stalin's Red Army, and never capitulated, unlike France, or the Benelux countries) were not allowed to march in the Victory celebration in London back in 1946, it was politically incorrect, Britain already had the good Attlee's Labour government at the helm.
ad rem,
the Hungarian Plain with its puszta, animals(horses, sheep, dogs, and Hungarian Grey Cattle) and people(especially the Csikos) in the art of Karoly Lotz -
Finally, some XXI century videos on the Hungarian Grey Cattle, puszta (eg Hortobágy National Park )and Csikos & horses from Hungary.
Valete
a short entry but before I go to the topic a little remainder and comment.
Namely, this week there passed the 75 anniversary of the end of World War II (for the Soviets and post-Soviet states it was and is May 9, for the West it was and is May 8, 1945), it culminated with the capture of Berlin and German unconditional surrender.
Poles were part of the conquering Soviet Red Army 'fronts,' and Stalin allowed to raise our Polish flag over the Berlin's vicory column by the Polish army soldiers who took part in the conquest of Berlin.
The Soviet Union flag raising was documented with utomost care and pomp as a part of the Stalin's epic (more than 20 million of the Soviet Union citizens died in that war, while Poland was reduced from 35 million citizens in 1939 to little over the 22 million in 1946)- some victory they could say, couldn't they?...
It was a great victory for the Soviet Union and USA, while Poland was left by the allies on the other side of the Iron Curtain, and then the citizen were outright robbed of their wealth, all in broad daylight and with the West blessing) in post-1989 'transformation.'
I am fond of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II - after all she is a horse aficionado and eg she still rode her horses before this corona calamity - and Friday she addressed her subjects to celebrate and commemorate the 75th anniversary, and to pay tribute to her father and her people.
Too bad Polish soldiers (after all Poland was attacked on Sept.1 1939 by the Germany's Wehrmacht and on Sept 17, 1939 by Stalin's Red Army, and never capitulated, unlike France, or the Benelux countries) were not allowed to march in the Victory celebration in London back in 1946, it was politically incorrect, Britain already had the good Attlee's Labour government at the helm.
ad rem,
the Hungarian Plain with its puszta, animals(horses, sheep, dogs, and Hungarian Grey Cattle) and people(especially the Csikos) in the art of Karoly Lotz -
Finally, some XXI century videos on the Hungarian Grey Cattle, puszta (eg Hortobágy National Park )and Csikos & horses from Hungary.
Valete
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Wilhelm Richter - miltiary & equestrian painter
Salvete Omnes,
today another quick post -
among the vastness of Wiki Commons galleries there are countless works of art, and especially works devoted to the equestrian subject are of great interest to me.
One of such searches ended with the discovery of the equestrian art of Wilhelm Richter, of Vienna and official painter of the Austro-Hungarian army during the later XIX century.
Wiki gallery contains mostly paintings od racing horses and military-related works,so allow me to insert some of them here - and more in great detail can be enjoyed from the gallery itself -
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this painting includes the figures of Austrian or Imperial & King's uhlans, in the right lower corner - these are in the Italian Wars of Independence period uniforms
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Richter's painting offered for sale at Christies...
Valete
today another quick post -
among the vastness of Wiki Commons galleries there are countless works of art, and especially works devoted to the equestrian subject are of great interest to me.
One of such searches ended with the discovery of the equestrian art of Wilhelm Richter, of Vienna and official painter of the Austro-Hungarian army during the later XIX century.
Wiki gallery contains mostly paintings od racing horses and military-related works,so allow me to insert some of them here - and more in great detail can be enjoyed from the gallery itself -
.
.
.
.
this painting includes the figures of Austrian or Imperial & King's uhlans, in the right lower corner - these are in the Italian Wars of Independence period uniforms
.
Richter's painting offered for sale at Christies...
Valete
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Giovanni Fattori - miltiary horse
Salvete Omnes,
A couple days ago I came across this Italian painter - maestro Giovanni Fattori - and his interesting military paintings from unified Italy that show plenty of military horse and equestrian equipment.
you can obviously view the gallery at Wiki Commons, so I would like to just point you towards his equestrian and historic art. The war depicted in his paintings was the most heroic in the modern Italian history - the unification of the Italian states by northern Italian kingdom of Piedmont, also known in its totality as Risorgimiento, into one Italy as Kingdom of Italy.
a couple of the paintings and some detail:
valete!
A couple days ago I came across this Italian painter - maestro Giovanni Fattori - and his interesting military paintings from unified Italy that show plenty of military horse and equestrian equipment.
you can obviously view the gallery at Wiki Commons, so I would like to just point you towards his equestrian and historic art. The war depicted in his paintings was the most heroic in the modern Italian history - the unification of the Italian states by northern Italian kingdom of Piedmont, also known in its totality as Risorgimiento, into one Italy as Kingdom of Italy.
a couple of the paintings and some detail:
valete!
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