Stanislaw Bagienski - Polish painter at Polona etc

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Jozef Dwernicki - the November Uprising 1830-31

 

a short entry - uff, I watched with lots of gusto the final of the Quatar 2022 World Cup : what a football/soccer game between Argentina and France. Vivat Argentina, new world champion.

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Stanislaw Bagienski(1876-1948) a native-born 'Varsovian*,' was a Polish painter active between the end of the XIX century and 1948 (thus he lived through the Great War - which was terrible within the Polish lands, the wars of Restitution of Poland, and finally the tragedy of World War II and coming of the Soviets and their henchmen into Poland. Another Polish artist born in the year of Little Big Horn. 

At first Bagienski studied under his father Feliks (Felix), continuing his art studies at the Wojciech Gerson drawing atelier/school at Warsaw (then Russian Poland), then circa 1900-1901 he went to Munich and Paris to further his studies in their respective fine arts academies until 1903. Upon returning to Poland he started fully his art career, from full canvas paintings to illustrations for various periodicals of the period (leading Polish periodicals like Tygodnik Ilustrowny, Biesiada Literacka, and Swiat).

disarming of the German soldiers in Warsaw in November 1918

 

Circa 1922 he joined the 'Pro Arte' artist group or movement in Warsaw and perhaps stayed with them until it was no more, or circa 1932.

In 1927 Bagienski, then established artist, joined the faculty, as a professor, the very Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. 

 

Maestro Bagienski painted scenes from Polish history, including plenty of military-related topics, cavalrymen, famous commanders and common soldiers, from the Old Poland stories, through Napoleonic Wars through Polish uprising to more contemporaneous events of the Great War and Polish wars of Independence 1918-21, and post-1918 Polish soldiers and their horses. Also his topics included book illustrations and genre scenes..

As you can see clearly maestro Stanislaw   painted plenty of horses and this is why I decided to include him in this gallery of painters and equestrian artists on my blog.

Images of his works in sepia from Polona Polish National Library -

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Varsovian - native to Warsaw, capital of Poland.

Origin of the European languages word for Sabre

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another quick entry - about the etymology of the word sabre- szabla etc, the proverbial sword of the Eastern European cavalryman and nobleman, and Eurasian warriors from time 'immemorial.' 

 

The Krakow Jagiellonian University scholar prof. Marek Stachnowski, on his Academia page, published his own 2004 article about the etymology of the European word for sabre - wiki commons gallery for sabres. 

at this moment there is no preview but you can download the article from Academia, upon registering, or here. 

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Henry D. Dakyns & his analysis of Hipparch 'corralled'

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a short entry, but with some interesting works linked in there -  for your pleasure and perusal.
Do canter away with Xenophon and his horse 

when Henry G. Dakyns translated Xenophon's Cavalry Commander (Hipparch, Hipparchicus) - I posted it here - 

 

so Henry Dakyns also made his own analysis of this treatise with annotations - nota bene a short entry to the Greek cavalry prior to the age of Philip II & his son Alexander (Macedonian conquerors eg prof. Ilkka Sylvanne article on their Art of War) by S. Skarmintzos on Academia. 

so if it pleases you, read away
 

and chlamys recreated

and there is this PhD. thesis - Of Horses And Men Developments in Greek Cavalry Training and Warfare (550-350 BC) - by  Annelies Koolen-who has a very extensive equestrian background (page 277 in her dissertation)-  but I have not read it yet (it is awaiting my reading list's longish line ) .

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