Horses from XV century San Sebastian piantings

 Salvete Omnes,

Spanish panel - Saint Sebastian and Saint Fabian

Panta rhei -said Heraclitus. So  August 2025 is ending, king of colder and rainier than ususal.
I always enjoy the XV century European art, especially paintings. 
Saint Sebastian (protector or defender against plague etc, patron of archers and athletes) was a popular saint of the Catholic Church during the period, many altar pieces had been painted during that great century, when Europe moved from chivalry to global exploration (reaching the Americas and South and Eastern Asia).

German altar painting from Nuremberg, 1487AD

a chestnut with a star & stripe, and a snip on its face (three socks are visible) , and a grey in a background. Horses have no forelocks

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Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger painted this retable. 

grey horses, and one sorrel on the opposite side

German painting - perhaps  the very end of the century

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Andrea Previtali - Saint Sebastian with a donor in a background

the donor is portrayed   training  his dextrarius , destrier being a  grey horse, while another destrier bay or chestnut horse held in the background by a groom.

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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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Joachim Beuckelaer - Markets & Fairs & Horses

 Salvete Omnes

Joachim Beuckelaer -  XVI century master from Netherlands -
and his bountiful markets with some horses in the background - be it draft or even riding horses(in the Ecce Homo series of paintings)

cornucopia of produce -

and some eggs for the egg starved California -:)

nota bene these and other paintings by master Joachim contain a veritable  treasury of visual information about the daily life in mid-XVI century Netherlands, including portraits of the common people in their daily activities and trades.

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