Stradanus - some hunt art

 Salvete Omnes,

Jan van Sreaet aka Stradanus- more-hunt related art : hunting lions, elephants, bulls, ibexes, ostrich, hare etc

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this is a bit rare - hunting bulls with hawks or some raptors

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a bit bloodthirsty collection, but all in all excellent art and skills.  

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Vaclav Wenceslas Hollar - Hawking or hunting birds

 Salvete Omnes,

Bochemian and eventually English artist  Vaclav (Wenceslas) Hollar of Prague created many prints during this long and prolific artistic life - hundreds in the Wiki Commons depositories

There are some of his works that depict falconry or hawking  that may interest us - 

Pheasant hunt 

partridge hunt

Heron hunt

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ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ - Happy Easter- Wesolego Alleluja

 Savete Omnes,

Tobias Frendt pinxit

Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!, romanized: Khristós anésti! - Alethós anésti! -
Paschal Greeting 

Christus surréxit! - Surréxit vere, allelúja ("Christ is risen!" - "He is risen indeed, Alleluia!")

today is Easter - Happy Easter to all 

lots of hunting spears 

unknown German  master - Resurrection 

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Cranach the Younger - horse and armor detail 

Wesolego Alleluja - Feliz Pasquas 

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Falconry and hunting in Codex Manesse

 Salvete Omnes,

Leuthold von Seven - famous minnesanger of the XIII century

 

Easter came and Easter went, so back to bloggin' -
    today I am going for a little entry - horses, riders, damsels, hawks, hounds, deer and boars in Codex Manesse  - beautiful manuscript from Medieval Holy Roman Empire aka Medieval Germanies. Today the manuscript is held presently at the Heidelberg University Library.

Falconry in Northern Germany - 600AD-1100AD - Academia article . 

Falconry by emperor Frederick II - a short .pdf from American Falconry.

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Hunting Spear - in chase and war I

 Salvete Omnes,

I am to devote more than several posts to the hunting spear, this ancient and very particular shafted weapon that for hundreds of years was used for hunting and war. Known as  'boar spear' 9or the  heavier version as boar spear) or as the French called it l'epieu, or the Slavic hunters rohatyna/Рогатина, Germans called it Saufeder/Bärenspieß, Italians chiavarina? (lancia di cinghiale) etc.
Hunting was done with a spear on foot or on horseback - nota bene there are videos on Yt showing a successful wild pig hunt with a bow & arrows on horseback (no saddle nor stirrups) from the US of A.
Caveat*
The illustrated material is rather graphic - so you are against hunting and against seeing images of hunt and war (albeit in traditional painting, textile or engraving etc) , then please do not continue perusing further down this page -
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