David Teniers the Younger - Guard room with saddle, pistolssuch & armor

 Salvete Omnes,

the paintings of the Flemish Teniers family artists have already graced this blog.
Today I would like to share with you this painting by David Teniers the Younger - The Interior of a Guard Room (painted between 1635-45). 

And in the foreground, on the right, we get a depiction of a Western European war saddle of this period (the Thirty Years War).

On the wall there is a pair (or a brace) of pistols in holsters, also done in red, like the saddle

war hammer /nadziak 

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another saddle from this 1643 saddle (  a black and white/sepia photo of the painting available on wiki commons )

such armor could have been worn by reiters/pistoleers/cuirassiers and Polish winged hussars

and the another version or the color photo of the same painting -

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Wallahusen - Jacobi's Kriegkunst & Kavallerie

 Salvete Omnes,

almost a decade ago I wrote this post about the Gdansk citizen and military theoretician Johann von Wallhausen.

Today just some plates from his book published by Paul Jacobi and scans available from Deutsche Fotothek. 

Horse & rider training - including war horse desensitizing with fire, noise and obstacles

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Luigi I d'Este - tassels, bay horse and flowing scarf

 Salvete Omnes,

Luigi I d'Este one again 

here dear Luigi I carries a very long, narrowing towards the tip sword

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a very detailed portrait - a bay stallion, and plenty of tassels 

typically long-shanked burb-bit

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very nice riding boots with a spur of which we cannot see the tip 

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sort of Sassanian Persian or old Medieval chivalry

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splendid saddle with pistol holster and long-barreled pistol

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Jan Victors - horses, boots and donkeys

 Salvete Omnes,

groom and the bay or buckskin horse with a docked tail

again we visit the Dutch Golden Age paintings - this time it will be the canvasses of Jan Victors (1619-1679) and equine related detail from his art

From a painting In front of a tavern - from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

a gentleman cavalier astride a black horse 

resting cavalier wearing riding boots while his rowel spurs are cleaned?

a typical cart horse and Dutch harness

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a ferry boat and a cavalier on a bay horse

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cart horses

donkeys with pack saddles - details from Victors' paintings

and a camel

and some Oriental or Orientalising riding boots - perhaps also Polish, Hungarian, Ottoman Turkish etc

and a great looking Turkish?  or Persian ? carpet

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Spinola, Bocquoy & Velasco - siege of Rheinberg from del Prado

 Salvete Omnes,

a fine Saturday one could say, as the World War III yet have not started - Go willing never will, but let us pray for peace in the Holy Land, Europe and the rest of the world.
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as rem, it is going to be about some heavy lance cavalry on war footing in the early XVII century western Europe, the town of Rheinberg on the banks of that great European river - the Rhine.
Museo del Prado, in Madrid, Kingdom of Spain-EU, has this painting -  Asedio de la villa de Rinsbarch (Rheinberg), circa 1601AD?

During the 80 Years War - when the Dutch rebelled against their Spanish Hapsburg kings and for many years fought against the Hapsburg armies until  independence in 1622AD.

in 1601 AD this Lower Rhine river town had been 'passing,' by means of conquest and reconquest, between the forces of Dutch and the Spanish armies starting at least in 1588AD through 1633, and in this instance  Rheinberg had been put under siege by the Hapsburg forces under Ambrogio Spignola, who had in his officer core de Bucquoy and Louis de Velasco. 

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interesting details can be find in this painting - quite a lot of cavalry, especially lance cavalry supplied by Spignola and his subcommanders.

lance company or banner under de Velasco

ferrying horses across the river

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in the foreground a dappled horse with a tied tail ridden side-saddle by a woman

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we can see here the size of the lances and manner of holding them

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