Friday, January 28, 2011

Training horses for war XVI century

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Salve, a quick but very telling image that speaks for itself training horses for war during the Renaissance, when firearms became part of...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Sketch on the Saka/Scythian theme

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Salve, it has been a while since i visited the Great Eurasian steppe. So let us return for a few moments, to take a look at the warriors...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Early hussars - 1510-20s

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Salve, German woodcuts and  printmaking of XVI century contains some most interesting images regarding early hussars and light cavalry deve...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

! Vivat Kielbasa !

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Salve,  'The Saveur'   www.saveur.com/article/kitchen/The-SAVEUR-100-Chefs-Edition?cmpid=teaser magazine  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

A little Morisco curb-bit I

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Salve, I am preparing some drawings on curb-bits and terminology, and I got this image (woodcut print0 from the Polish-Lithuanian winged hu...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Polish documentary Klushino on youtube

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Salve,  documentary film on Klushino battle of 1610 and... 2010 :)   Documentary on Klushiono Caveat -only in Polish, but still worthw...

Lucas Mayer woodcuts - 1594 and 1595continued

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Salve, two more woodcuts by Lucas Mayer  one showing a 1594 Ottoman Turks versus Christians battle, not very clear copy of a woodcut prin...

Lucas Mayer woodcuts 1595-96 - warfare in Kingdom of Hungary

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Salve, the subject of today's entry will be woodcuts of a German printmaker named Lucas Mayer who was active in the Holy German Empire ...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Baroque painting - Philips Wouwerman on Polish-Swedish "Deluge'

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Salve, both at the Hermitage, Russia, and at the National Gallery, UK, there are   painting showing a battle scene between Western sold...
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Baroque painting - Philips Wouwerman continued

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Salve,  I decided to add some details from his paintings showing tack and horse related activity, i.e., farrier at work. ...here we...
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Baroque painting - Philips Wouwerman

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Hello, this time another Northern European artist and his horses of the Baroque period - Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman en.wikipedi...

Baroque painting - Peter Snayers

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Salve, the students of the Polish Renaissance warfare know the famous painting of the battle of Kircholm  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_K...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Captain John Smith of Pocahontas's Virginia fighting Turks

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Adam Czahrowski, Treny i Rzeczy Rozmaite's illumination plus my horse  sketch Salve, we all know about Captain and gentleman John ...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Little sketch of Russian 'cholop' after von Herberstein

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Salve, upon reading some of the von Herberstein's notes I drew this image of a Muscovy warrior, and I gave him an Ottoman Turk...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Sigmund Herberstein's 'Notes on Muscovy' at Archive.org

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Salve,  internet free libraries are such wonderful places for all us, students of the past and present. This time archive.org proved itsel...

Chocim 1621 and Turkish 'copia'*

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Salve, a couple days ago my  dear friend and 'early hussars' scholar Samuel made a comment about the lances with 'galka...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Turkish rider sketch - progress

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Salve, New Year has come and this is my first post this 2011. I welcome all new follwoers to my blog and wish everyone lots of health and ...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

A little sketch with a new software

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Salve,  I've got this new painting program - Sketchbook Pro 2011 (merci Maarcin for pointing it to me  -:) ) and decided to draw this s...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Chojnice AD 1657 - battle that confused Wikipedia editors :)

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Salve, as I have been giving links here to various Wikipedia articles, and I have noticed that they do contain plenty of errors or misl...
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