Salvete Omnes,
summer is in its dog days -
I corralled some woodcuts from a German artist Niklas Stor (1503-1562) depicting the Ottoman Turkish warriors. During this period the Ottoman empire, Hungarian kingdom and German Reich entered into almost continued warfare.
Master Niklas' work, in the tradition of master Albrecht Durer, provides plenty of information on the Ottoman riders and their equipment.
& a giraffe
enjoy
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Salvete Omnes,
in the past I mentioned the Tuareg people of the Sahara/Sahel - Western and North Africa.
I am reading the a book by George Francis Lyon (1796-1832) about his travels, 1818-1820,in African Sahel.
Lyon left a description of the Tuareg, the nomads of the Sahel, who like the Tatars in the eastern Europe prior to their conquest by the Russians, were slavers and lived of long distance trade across vastness of Sahara etc.
while Project Gutenberg has a book - People of the Veil - to download and peruse - on the history and anthropology of the Tuareg of the Airs.
Valete
Salvete Omnes,
in 2018 I shared some of the horse-related drawings and sketches by the famous Arabian horse breeder and Polish nobleman - count & emir Waclaw Rzewuski.
Perusing Polish National Library digital archives - Polona - I came across this collection of letters by emir Rzewuski. And there were two sketches in there worth sharing with you.
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and some more images from the wonderful manuscript - Sur les chevaux orientaux et provenants des races orientales. Also held at the National Library of Poland.
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