Friday, May 28, 2010

historic saddles reproduced

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Salve, Memorial Weekend upon us in the USA, and time to take a dip in the ocean before that horrible BP Oil Spill in Mexican Gulf comes...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Charles John ffoulkes works on archive.org

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salve, Again I would like to share with you a splendid page from the greatest free book depository, i.e.,archive.org   . This time the bo...

horse images - reference for painting and drawing I

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'old style' (Roman-nosed) American horse head photo reference...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

great Medieval and Renaissance arms and armor book in 5 volumes

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Salve, Sunday is always a great day to visit a museum or library in NYC and we (my son and I ) are going to go to the New York research li...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Some English sources to the 'Time of Troubles' in Muscovite Russia

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Salve,     I just came across the internet archive book (from University of Toronto collection) titled 'False Dimitri" that cont...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

XIII century Poland's Kinghts and their horses II

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hello again, perhaps I am rushing this theme a bit but I was perusing 'UZBROJENIE W POLSCE SREDNIOWIECZNEJ 1350-1450' (Arms and arm...
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XIII century Poland's Kinghts and their horses

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Czolem amici et viajeros, I have been reading some and then some more on the Medieval knights and their horses. I have not posted anything ...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Turkish horses of Cilicia Pedias (Cukurova Plain)

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hello, In the Polish and Muscovy XVI-XVII century sources the so called Turkish horses  were listed as the most splendid and notable steeds...
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another Gallic horseman

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Salve, I just 'cartoonized' another of my Gallic horsemen. Time frame is around  the Wars of the Second Triumvirate  ( 43 BC – 33 ...
Monday, May 3, 2010

some idea

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salve, Tonight I will return to the idea included in  Messer Kadrinazi's  comment to my previous post : "[...] in relation of Eng...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

a little 'joke' on Olesko Chocim painting

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Salve, Since they were posted  I have been immensely enjoying the great quality of the pictures taken by the hussars portal team http://www...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Kluszyn 1610, Klushino, Битва при Клушине

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Salve,  Hussaria portal  posted amazing new and detailed  pictures of the Polish  XVII (17th) century canvas by  Szymon  Boguszewicz- paint...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Chaco & Patagonia horse tack - visit to the American Museum of Natural History

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   We often visit  the American Museum of Natural History. my son loves it and I share his admiration for this museum. I often scout its e...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Wounded Gaul

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Salve,  Several years ago I did a number of illustrations for a book on the battle of Philippi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Phili...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

A bit of allegory

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Salve,  a bit of symbolism in this image -  :)
Friday, April 16, 2010

horse photos for reference in drawing and painting

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salve, I would like to start a new series of entries related to  drawing and painting ( and sculpting ) horses, my most favorite animal on ...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Roman officer I century BC

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A little sketch of a Roman officer from around the battle of Philippi  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Philippi   of a sort seen in ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Poland's tragedy

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Today, our Polish President and his wife Maria, former President Kaczorowski, their closest associates, senators and Seym representatives...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Sketches continued

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Salve, a concept sketch -  a pacholik is parading a war stallion :)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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czolem, today I am going to write mostly in my dear Polish language, for the subject matter - particular author and his fiction books - to ...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Szkice aka sketches continued

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salve, April in full bloom,  North Brooklyn streets are full of summer fashions -love them dearly, so one of these days I will sit in one o...
Monday, April 5, 2010

Wielkanoc alias Easter ... for caballeros and ladies alike

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Salve, one does not live by making pictures and reading books alone, so today a bit about food. We, Polish people,  celebrate the most ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Horse Tack

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Salve, Polish Army Museum has a very nice collection of horse tack from the XVII-XVIII (17-18) centuries. I took some photos of the displa...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Polish Saddles of XVII century continued

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Salve,  another 'plate' with some Polish saddles from the XVII (17th) century.  Various saddles,  from the Polish winged hussar sad...

Spring is coming - :)

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Czolem, slowly and with a lot of wind Spring is coming and I revisited my old drawing, adding a few dots and lines here and there using Gim...
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Polskie osiodłania - Polish saddles 17th century

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Salve,  a new sketch  related to the Polish horse tack of the XVI-XVIII centuries, with an older image  showing an officer of 'kozacka ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Faris Rzewuski

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Juliusz Kossak painted this imaginary image of an Arabian faris or knight galloping over the desert. His work was wholly or in part stimul...