Hispalis known as Sevilla AD 1619 p. II

Salvete Omnes,
continuing with the equestrian details from the panorama of Seville AD 1619

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Hispalis known as Sevilla AD 1619 p. I

Catedral de Santa María de la Sede de Sevilla

Salvete omnes,

in May and June this year I showed some details from Baroque panoramas of Gdansk and Lisbon (click on the labels portion to look at them), and this late in November I am inviting you to take a look at some chosen details from the panorama showing the horse and rider, carriage and wagons, mules, donkeys, oxen etc in Seville/Sevilla, the most opulent and splendorous city of then largest empire on earth, the Spanish Hapsburg Empire, where the sun never set and where old the gold and silver came from the New Indies. This is the city before the great plague of 1649AD, still the center of the international trade with the Americas and Spanish (and Portuguese) possessions in Africa and Asia.
Curiously we see various styles of riding - la gineta and la brida - popular in the Iberian peninsula since the Middle Ages.

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Thracian bit - some ideas about attachment

Salvete omnes,
great MET has in their collection this bronze bit -
''The mouthpiece consists of two canons studded with rounded spikes, linked by a ring in the center. Each one terminates with a ring for the reins and a long and straight full-cheek piece, pierced with two holes for hanging it from the bridle.''

I have drawn over the MET photo of this artifact and propose the following arrangement of this bit  attachment  to the headstall -
Hermitage has many images of the surviving bridles -headstalls and bits - from the Central Asia (Ukok Plateau etc) barrows.
 My prior post about Dodona bit also includes the Athens museum proposed reconstruction of the bit and the bridle.



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Nicolas Lagneau - Polish drawings

Salvete Omnes,
no horses this time (soon, very soon there will be back) - so a quick time travel into the world of French draughtsman Nicolas Lagneau and his often grotesque drawings.
Gallica, French National Library, has in their collection many wash drawings of master Lagneau, including two portraits of Polish men, There are more of these portraits that might show Polish costumes - eg this one.
Young Polish man

Gallica

 
Old Polish man (with a war hammer)

Gallica

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ps
love the idea of digitilization of prints, drawings, paintigs, manuscripts and old books that is so prolific in continental Europe. Time travel with no end - :)

Polonia Restituta - 100 years

Salvete Omnes.
100 years ago a sovereign Polish state was reborn after having been partitioned and ruled by three European powers in 1795AD.

White Eagle - 1919-27

My family and I, like all Poles around the world. celebrate this 100th anniversary and salute all ancestors, men and women, who worked on restoring our Polish state to most desired sovereign status. I especially salute Polish peasants and Polish nobility, two social groups who fought for our reborn independence.
note that the 1918 or year zero of officially reborn Republic was amidst flames of war, and the war or more properly wars and conflicts were to be continued for another 3 years.
we have had more than 1000 years of history as a sovereign state:

from our first Christian ruler prince Mieszko I of Piast clan

 his fabulously successful son and king Boleslaw I

Jagiellon Poland - crica 1436

under the Jagiellon dynasty 1490

Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

II Republic

present III Republic - under the EU Lisbon Treaty, rules and regulations are we still as in depended as they claim ?



Vivat Polonia Resituta
during the XX century we Poles were first to fight, in World War I more than 1 million Poles died, world War II saw loss - death, migration, refugees -  of many millions, country population reduced from close to 35 million in 1939 to some 23 million in 1945

I like this poster by painter and graphic artist Marek Zulawski  

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ps
maps from Wiki Commons
ps

I salute tsar Nicolas I Romanov, who crowned himself a King of Polish Congress Kingdom in 1829 and the same year concluded a war with the Ottoman empire, and ordered that the Ottoman cannons captured should be sent to Warsaw with  the words that he, the King of Polish Kingdom, avenged the death of our king Wladyslaw III -
 
 Vladislaus by God's grace king of Crown of Kingdom of Poland, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Rascia (Serbian Grand Principality), Supreme Prince of Duchy of Lithuania, lord of Pomerania and Ruthenia.
 
(at Varna in 1444, here Matejko painting).

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last but not least - Happy Veterans Day! -

Bernardo Bellotto - details from his Warsaw paintings I

Salvete Omnes,
I have been itching to visit Warsaw museums to take a closer look at various Warsaw paintings (27 paintings in total, all oil on canvas) by Bernando Bellotto known in Polish Kingdom as Canaletto.
My reasons are simple, these paintings contain multitude of information related to Old Polish material history, eg civilian and military attire and costume, but especially within the scope of my blog  the horse topics:  from Old Polish horses shown profusely (from fine steeds to nags), riding equipment, sumptuous parade carriages to lowly peasant carts.
For example let's take a look at this painting

 showing situated at Krakowskie Przedmiescie street 34  Kościół Wizytek (Church of St. Joseph of the Visitationists) built during a long period of 1720-65 (consecrated in 1763) . This is perhaps a hay market scene, with peasant carts filled to a brim with hay.
going from left to right:

Old Polish horse saddled etc lead by a servant with two dogs by its hind legs

carts with hay and one wagon already empty. note the small size of the horse pulling this cart, also a fragment of a cat with a barrel, perhaps with beer, since beer had been daily drink popular in Poland

a peasant cart with sacks of something (grain?) pulled by small horses (harness off, horses feeding) and a small carriage (Basztarda[Pl.]  diligence[Fr.] or coupe)pulled by a pair of black carriage horses (not very splendorous during those times, when teams of 4 and 6 or more horses were all rage and fashion)

more carts with hay, we see variously colored  small draft horses, in between a servant (most likely) riding a taller horse with a sky blue schabraque . Cart horses harness includes a duga with hołoble ( shaft bows with ) harness - 'chomąto podlaskie' - a typical driving harness in Old Poland.

here it appears that the painter showed what appears to me  a  servant, perhaps a  in his lord's uniform  standing along with a burgher woman, with a fragment of another  carriage (perhaps another coupe?) behind them

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Pieśń Legionów (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła) - Juliusz Kossak

Salvete Omnes,
[in Polish]

mamy 100-lecie odzyskania Niepodleglosci - vivat Polonia Restituta!
Przypomnijmy, ze 1 Listopada 1918 roku ludność Lwowa (Lviv, Ukraina dzisiaj) ruszyła bronic naszego Leopolis przed agresja armii ukraińskiej - dobra bo na gorąco pisana książka o walkach we Lwowi ( - :) )
ergo, z przyjemnością zalaczam link do albumu ''Pieśń Legionów (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła)'' z ilustracjami Juliusza Kossaka i wstępnem słowem Stanisława Schnür-Pepłowskiego.
.. często zapomniana zwrotka

 .. i moja ulubiona ilustracja z wojewoda kijowskim panem Stefanem Czarnieckim na dropiatym koniku

Valete!