Master of the Benediktbeurer Kreuzigung

 Salvete Omnes,

Good Friday - Day of Crucifixion of Our Lord circa 30 A,D., a little less than 2000 years ago.

So we will travel to circa 1455AD when unknown master painted this Crucifixion for the Benediktbeuern Abbey, in Bavaria.  The painter was contemporary to:

Konrad Witz  

and

Master of der Darmstädter Passion.

Horses and riders from the Benedictine Crucifixion - 

paint horse 

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2nd paint horse

mounted crossbowman 

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let us pray that Ukraine and Western Asia will see peace not war this Easter

Valete

Babenberger Stammbaum 1492AD - bridles

 Salvete Omnes,

a short but with plenty of imagery - the bridles from the late XV century Holy Roman Empire, more precisely from inside of the Roman Catholic  Klosterneuburg Abbey, where Hans Part and other painters painted a family tree triptych known as the  Babenberger Stammbaum (the Babenberg Family Tree) circa 1489-92.

The bridles - a whole array of curb-bits, double reins and headstalls:

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enjoy 

Valete

Condottiere - Horseman from Santa Anastasia , Verona - International Gothic

 Salvete Omnes,

this evening we will canter quickly to Verona, where inside the Catholic church of Santa Anastasia there is a funerary monument to Cortesia Serego (1335-386AD), a condottiere captain in the Veronese army.

Cortesia II Sergo, his son, ordered the monument to be sculpted  by Pietro di Nicolo Lamberti and painted by Michele Giambono.

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San Crisogonom, an armored horseman astride a destrier,  painting by Michele Giambono

enjoy 

Valete

Bronze Horses from MET

 Salvete Omnes,

so we have entered the last month of this 2025.  Christmas is almost around the corner, and the San Silvestre/New Year.
In 2023 I posted a short entry on the Maciejowski Bible (now also sadly known as the Morgan Bible) and the knightly aquamanile from the fabulous museum in NYC  aka MET.

From MET come these XV century Imperial bronze vessels aka aquamanile. 

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and the second horse 

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enjoy

Valete