Escape into Egypt by Wolf Huber et al.,

 Salvete Omnes,

 Wolf Huber - Escape of the Holy Family to Egypt aka Flight into Egypt -

Dosso Dossi et Batista Dossi

Jan de Beer

Pieter Artsen

Hans Baldug Grien

Bramantino

Vittore Carpaccio

Jorg Breu

Jan Wellens de Cock

Anonymous

Llorens

Jerg Ratgeb

Joachim Beuckelaer

Gerard David - do note the saddle on this donkey

Master of Half-Lengths - note king Herod's  soldiers searching for the Holy Family in the background

Master of Female Half-Lengths - note the saddle on the grazing donkey

Melker altar

Pallanza

Henri de Bles

Micheleangelo di Pietro Membrini

Flight into Egypt with the Massacre of the Innocents in the background

and the nice pack and draft saddles from the Northern Renaissance German manuscript

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Valete

Puer natus est nobis - Medieval illumination

 Salvete Omnes

Merry Christmas - Wesołych Świąt - Feliz Navidad

Illuminated beautiful page by Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci for Paolo Venier, abbot of San Michele à Murano Italy, Florence ca. 1392

 and one illumination from the XII century English Psalter, of the Royal Danish Library collection.

All the best to y'all, my fellow Net travelers.
May peace be upon all, be it in Ethiopia, Yemen, Ukraine or some other terrible conflict.

Valete

Christmas is coming - onto Bethlehem

Salvete Omnes,

 

Giovanni Badile - Maria Gravita

Christmas is coming fast to our homes, only 5 days to Christmas' Eve - so in the spirit of Gospels I corralled some mosaics, carvings, paintings and their details from the pre-XVII century period  showing the Holy Family traveling, by donkey and with Virgin Mary very pregnant, from Nazareth to Bethlehem.

first  a medieval ivory carving - from Amalfi, then part of  the Norman Italian realm, early XII century -

Byzantine, XIV century, mosaic from  Chora church (mosque nowadays in Turkiye) - the donkey looks high bred and almost noble.

Bruegel the Elder, 1599 - The Census at Bethlehem. - details

and one more detail  from Hugo van der Goes' work (Portinari Triptych) -

enjoy

Valete

Les Grandes Chroniques de France II

Salvete Omnes,
back to blogging from a little hiatus  - :)
Medieval manuscript painting, very beautiful as usual,  is back,

three young women appear to be riding side-saddles, their mounts are palfreys that have been bitted with a curb-bit

and we are back in the XIV century Les Grandes Chroniques de France,continuing from my  last post.
This time I am sharing with you more images of tack and riding technique - details of the page illuminations*

the length of the dress skirts on the grey horse-mounted rider seems to indicate that this is a woman, so perhaps she is riding a side saddle

A Royal female personage is riding astride and is carrying a baby, the bushes hide horses front so we don't know if it is a pacing horse

Palfreys and hunting dogs, horses appear not to be shod

the small horse seems to be used as a sumpter or pack horse, but it has been bitted with a curb-bit,so perhaps a rouncey?

clearly a team of carriage animals - royal personage is being carried in a basterna(litter)

the basterna drivers-riders use but a whip or stick while instead of a full bridle they use a rope halter or a version of hackamore

enjoy

Valete!

*each image has a title after its manuscript page number