Horse in the art of Russian painter Alexiei Glukhariov

Salvete omnes,
drinking my first morning coffee I was surfing the net and came across quite many paintings of a contemporary Russian artist and student of the horse  Алексей Глухарёв which I think transcribes as Alexei Glukhariov.
 Here there is  a video where maestro Alexei gives his thoughts on the equine art, horses etc. Another site with more information and gallery of his work. Wikipedia page linked above gives ample listing of his exhibits and publications. I have not found his own page.

What can I say here, his is an amazing art and I just wanted to share with you these images - for the beauty of his brushes,  especially amazing are the Akhal-Tekes - which modern breed Russian Imperial breeders created upon the conquest of the Central Asia Turkmen tribes in 1880-90s.

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ps
I do not own any rights to these images and I am corralling them here for the educational and aesthetic purposes. As far as I know all copyrights are owned by the artist himself

Turkish Embassy in Vienna AD 1628 - Thanksgiving Eve

Salvete omnes,
Thanksgiving upon us - like this holiday at the end of the dreary month of November . If you are in the States or simply celebrate Amercan Thanksgiving then tonight  your turkeys are baking, roasting or just getting prepared for the feast tomorrow, along with sweet potatoes and some other delicious foodstuffs.
I encountered this interesting print from AD 1628 (Wiki Commons ) .
It supposedly shows the ceremonial entry of the Ottoman Turkish embassy  into the imperial capital of Vienna in October AD 1628.
 Note the Hungarian lance-armed hussar cavalry, some are wearing pointed helmets and the first lancer has a  what seems to my eyes as a chain-of-mail armor. Wild cat pelts are ubiquitous among the Hungarians and the Ottoman riders alike. The imperial musicians on horseback include various trumpeters and a tympanist (kettle-drummer), while the Turkish embassy music ensemble appears to consist of a drummer and several trumpeters, all on horseback . Spare parade horses are led in hand by the mounted (Hungarians & Austrians) or walking (Ottoman) attendants.  The ambassador is proceeded by two peyk bodyguards with two large double-bladed battleaxes.

so first comes the Hungarian escort from Komarom with the officers of the city company bhind them shown in bulk in the next row

 then the City officials

the company of men of the city of Vienna city burgermeisters plus the officer and musicians of the next company

the body of the 'cammerers' company followed by the Turkish embassy riders and parade horses

Turkish lance- and bow-armed riders led by the fine rider, followed by the Imperial trumpeters, the ambassador with the Austrian officials and commander from Komarom and the remainder of  the embassy staff, followed by Turkish pack mules and Turkish wagon

Ottoman Turkish Sultan or Emperor  at the time was Murad IV and the king of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Emperor was Ferdinand II.
unfortunately at this time I do not know who was the artist who drew and printed this print.
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Potop - The Deluge - album from 1899 p.II

Salvete omnes,
and part two of the Potop Album (1899)

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ps
Potop - part II  from archive library

Potop - The Deluge - album from 1899 p.I

Salvete omnes,
FBC or Polish digital libraries contain vast treasures for us, aficionados of old books, to 'rediscover' and peruse.

I came across an  AD 1899 album containing 16 drawings illustrating Henryk Sienkiewicz's masterpiece - Potop (The Deluge) , part two of the Trilogy, by three Polish artists  of the era:
Piotr Stachniewicz
Czeslaw Borys Jankowski ( biography in Polish  )
Stanislaw Kaczor-Batowski
part I

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