Monday, January 27, 2014

Miklós Zrínyi/Nikolaus Zrinski - another winged hussar

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Salve,  leaving the present politics behind, let us turn again to the period prints from XVII century. This print shows  Croato-Hungari...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Podajże rękę Kozakowi

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 Salve, Vivat Ukraina - all the best to You !  today just a poem  by Taras Shevchenko , the Poet of Ukraine...   Taras Szewczenko ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Sassanian hippotaxotai - a sketch

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Salve, a Sassanina hippotaxotai or horse archer - a MyPaint sketch enjoy
Friday, January 24, 2014

Sketching a horse in MyPaint

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Salve,   Getty Museum opened its coffers to us, Net surfers, and soem nice books are available for download or just reading directly on lin...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Count Adam Batthyany - winged hussar extraordinarie

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Salve, Wikimedia Commons has this fantastic print from the studio of  Jakob von Sandrart who was one of the best engravers in Nuremberg. T...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Certamen Equestre - mounted drummers

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Salve Friends and net travellers, still hoovering over the Certamen equestre prints from Gallica, we can eject another interesting set of i...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Certamen Equestre - Gallica

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Salve, great news - French National digital Library Gallica has the entire Certamen Equestre for all to view and download the i...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sketches - Parthians etc

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Salve, just adding a few sketches as I have been doing more reading of the Parthians of the III-I centuries BC They are done on computer ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Horses of Gericault - adendum

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Salve, in December I made this entry on the wonderful equestrian art of Monsieur Gericault, and today I am going to add several images fro...