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[in Polish]

imć pan Jacek Komuda - autor (powieści, scenariusze, felietony etc), historyk i popularyzator staropolskiej i polskiej historii militarnej, i Fundacja Ułanów Króla Jana upraszają o wsparcie produkcji filmowej - serialu - na podstawie własnej powieści 'Diabeł Łańcucki'(wydana przez Fabrykę Słów), gdzie starosta zygwulski Stanisław Stadnicki zwany Diabłem, herbu Szreniawa bez Krzyża, terroryzuje przemyskie, sanockie etc, a ulubiony bohater Jacek Dydyński i jego bracia  przeżywają przygody et awantury - nota bene w cudownej XIX wiecznej pracy 'Prawem i Lewem' Władysława Łozińskiego  jest rozdział o Diable i Diablętach.

Portal Zrzutka ma stronę dedykowana dla zbiórki na produkcje pierwszego odcinak serialu -

mój egzemplarz ''Diabła Łańcuckiego'', z autografem mości Jacka i moim własnym szkicem 

Tedy, niczym dawna husaria szable na temblaki, naciśnij mocno czapkę na głowę, ściśnij kolanami rumaka i pochyl kopię - cwałem w miernoty  popkultury! 

vivat niezależna produkcja i staropolska opowieść na srebrnym ekranie!

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Muscovy Horses of early 17th century - Captain Margeret

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      Jacques Margeret was a Huguenot mercenary who served in Muscovy (Grand Duchy of Muscovy) starting with tsar Boris Godunov,  tsar Dimitrii Ivanovich, and tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, and being a partner? confidante? of Mikhail Saltykov Glebovich  went over to the Polish side, thus serving with the Polish Crown and our King Sigismund III's army. 

Captain Margeret, while in Polish service,  participated with distinction in the battle of Kluszino, He left Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth circa 1612, eventually settled in Germanies, becoming a confidante and consultant to several rulers and magnates of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and German states, and by 1619 disappeared from the pages of history.

While in France after the death of Dimitri I, he wrote a very interesting account on the Muscovite state, and in his work  he also described horses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuanian, thus we can read about the Muscovite Russian (eg of Vologda) ,Nogai Tatar, Polish and Turkish horses in this work (English translation titled "The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy" ).
I compiled the pertinent pages from Gallica - French National Library - the French original

and two images containing  the old Muscovite Russian saddles

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Hans Memling, horses and riders & Madonnas

Salve friends and visitors,
Hans Memling was one of the many amazing painters of the Northern Renaissance - XV century prolific painter of astonishing imagination and  skill. 

Two Horses and a Monkey - a  portrayal of the medieval horse ideal, its allegory nicely explained here

Turin altarpiece 

 

Saint John triptych

Seven Joys of the Virgin 

 

Greveradenaltar

 

Resurrection (of Budapest) 

and for its beauty - the Portinaris - husband and wife

 

and some samples of his Madonnas - nota bene several of his Madonnas contain magnificent oriental (Turkish and Persian?) carpets

 

and Adam and Eve

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Ulani W Meksyku

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[in Polish]

 

Stanisław hrabia Wodzicki 'Z ułanami cesarza Maksymiljana w Meksyku : wspomnienia oficera' - można albo przeczytać z ekranu, lub wydrukować sobie ze strony Biblioteki Narodowej  Polona.

Książka została także wznowiona jako repritnt,   przez wydawnictwo Miles, niestety z 'koszmarna' okładką bo to obraz Kossaka pokazujący  lansjerów nadwiślańskich w Hiszpanii z epoki Napoleona I[sic!], - tutaj ich strona z książką. 

Hrabia Wodzicki należał do 2 szwadrony owego regimentu ułanów legion austriackiego, i pozostawił nam wspomnienia ciekawe, oprócz walk i trudów wojny także pełne szczegółów ówczesnego życia w Meksyku, okiem polskiego kawalera i oficera, który jak się sam przyznaje był zapalonym karciarzem i hazardzista, w wyniku swych pasji   karnawale stracił wszystko, w tym swoje prywatne konie wierzchowe. Ale nauczył się hiszpańskiego w niecały miesiąc..

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Horses of Aniello Falcone

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Canicula or dog days of the summer are upon us - so back to some fine art history and here we go:
Aniello Falcone(1600-1656) a disciple of Jose de Ribera, Neapolitan epic painter of war and heroic epic stories. he painted extraordinarily precise and fabulous war horses. Presumably of his region, i.e., southern Italy, while he himself was a fighting man too, took part in the rebellion against the Spanish rule.

 

I wonder if these are Neapolitan horses ?

Certainly they are of proper size and even epitomize war horses of better breeding, perhaps thoses of the Italian peninsula but also perhaps of the North African Berber types and African Muslin breeding?

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Vergilius Vaticanus

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The Vatican Apostolic Library has digitalized one of two oldest surviving Late Antique manuscripts - which contains parts of the Virgil's works collection (originally the manuscript might have contained the entire Aeneid, Georgics, and Ecolgues) - nice Wiki page in French. Publius Vergilius Maro(70BC-19BC)- Roman poet writing in the Homeric epic traditions - if you have studied Latin or planing to study it, then  Vergilius' works may be part of the study and enjoyment of the Latin literature.

I have corralled some horses and riders from the manuscript - end of IV century AD Romans and their mythical history.

the entrance to the Elysian Fields

Roman imperial imagery - Trojans and king Latinus on the throne

the other Roman manuscript held at the Vatican Library is the so called Vergilius Romanu - here a scholarly article on this late Roman manuscript.  

Nota bene, two  libre books, from my most favorite museum - MET, The Age of Spirituality - a catalogue of exhibit held at the MET in 1977-78 season; and the collection of articles of The Age of Spirituality, A Symposium. So if you wondering about the Late Rome and her art etc , then these works provide  rather easy access to 'pre-end of history' scholarship and commentary. 

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