Horses Across time

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A Timeline of Horses in History “When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. ”― William Shakespeare, Henry V

Horses begin to show up in cave art as companion animals.

Surveying the fields for Nebamun, fragment of a scene from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun, -1350/-1350, From the collection of: British Museum

Fragmentary relief showing two pairs of horses harnessed to a chariot (now lost), part of a royal procession scene, Unknown, 14th century BCE, From the collection of: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

14th century BCE - Horses become machines of war. Over five thousand years ago. Chariot warfare. The earliest manual on horses was about chariot warfare.

Potidaia, stater, Unknown, -0490, From the collection of: Numismatic Museum

Votive Relief (The Cottenham Relief), Unknown, about 500 B.C., From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Xenophone the Father of classical Equitation. The Greeks take the concepts of horsemanship and apply the classical ideals of perfection.

Horse without a rider., Unknown, Around 490 BC, From the collection of: Acropolis Museum

Limestone reliefs showing two men leading a horse, -490/-470, From the collection of: British Museum

Block IX of the west frieze., Pheidias Workshop, 442-438 BC, From the collection of: Acropolis Museum

Black-Figure Amphora, 540 - 530 B.C., From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon, -438/-432, From the collection of: British Museum

Marble statue of a youth on horseback, 1/50, From the collection of: British Museum

Notice the rider has no stirrups this will not be introduced until later.

Five Horses (local), Li Gonglin, 1106, From the collection of: China Modern Contemporary Art Document

(Main View (.2.recto) / book image source), From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Medieval Art

The Death of Sennacherib, Unknown, about 1300, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Guidoriccio da Fogliano, Simone Martini, 1328, From the collection of: Fondazione Musei Senesi

The ideals of knightly virtue rest on the notion that the word Chivalry is derived from the French word chevalier meaning horseman more than the ability to ride it is the foundation ideals Knighthood

Battle of San Romano, Paolo Uccello, 1436 - 1440, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery

Study for an equestrian monument (recto), Leonardo da Vinci, c.1485 - c.1490, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

da Vinci Knowledge of anatomy fueled his study of movement and revolutionized art.

Charles I (1600-49) with M. de St Antoine, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1633, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

The Conquest of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus, Nicolas Poussin, 1638, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Many elements of the Neoclassical are in this painting - Serving as court painter to the King of France.

The "Piebald" Horse, Paulus Potter, about 1650–1654, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

White Horse in a Riding School, van Calraet, Abraham, Before 1722, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Equestrian portrait of the Emperor Charles V, Anthony Van Dick Van Dick, Around 1620, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery

An Example of Royal Absolutism - The power to ride a horse and make it look easy. This painting is a message about power and control.

Horse Frightened by a Lion, George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British, between 1762 and 1768, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Battle of Aboukir, Antoine-Jean Gros, 1806, From the collection of: Palace of Versailles

transitioning into the Romantic period.

Head of a Grey Arabian Horse, Martin Theodore Ward, 1799–1874, British, between 1820 and 1830, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Grey carriage horses in the coachyard at Putteridge Bury, Hertfordshire, John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865, British, 1838, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Neoclassical

Lion dévorant un cheval (Lion Devouring a Horse), Eugène Delacroix, c. 1844, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Lion Hunt, Eugène Delacroix, circa 1854, From the collection of: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

A Turk Surrenders to a Greek Horseman, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, 1856, From the collection of: Harvard Art Museums

An example of Delacroix's Orientalism

Angelica and the wounded Medoro, Eugène Delacroix, circa 1860, From the collection of: Art Gallery of New South Wales

After the Race, John Willis Good, 1845–1879, British, 1875, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

A Dutch Road, Anton Mauve, ca. 1880, From the collection of: The Toledo Museum of Art

The White Horse "Gazelle", 1881, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, 1881, From the collection of: Albertina Museum

Knight at the Crossroads, Victor Vasnetsov, 1882, From the collection of: The State Russian Museum

Nostalgia for the old values of Knightly virtue in the early modern period.

Landscape of Öland, gypsies on a horse, Nils Kreuger, 1885, From the collection of: Malmö Konstmuseum

Herd of horses, Fernando Fader, 1907, From the collection of: Colección AMALITA

Cowboys Roping a Bear, James Walker, c. 1877, From the collection of: Denver Art Museum

Walking with a bucket in mouth; light-gray horse, Eagle, Eadweard J. Muybridge, ca. 1884-1887, From the collection of: George Eastman Museum

Photography would change everything and begin an new era in how we see the world. Demonstrating movement in a series of photographs.

Cavalry, George Hendrik Breitner, 1883/1888, From the collection of: Kunstmuseum

The Defeat of Crazy Horse, Frederic Remington, c. 1901, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Regimental Band, Japp, Darsie (MC), 1918, From the collection of: Imperial War Museums

The Horse Wrangler, Frederic Remington, ca. 1924, From the collection of: Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Bailed up, Tom Roberts, 1895, 1927, From the collection of: Art Gallery of New South Wales

The slip-Ned Kelly Series, Sidney NOLAN, 1947, From the collection of: National Gallery of Australia

Jiu Fang Gao, Xu Beihong, 1931, From the collection of: China Modern Contemporary Art Document

February, Grant Wood, 1940, From the collection of: Berkshire Museum

Afternoon Lambency, Miyasako Masaaki, 2006, From the collection of: Adachi Museum of Art

Martial Attire, Sun Hao, 2015, From the collection of: China Modern Contemporary Art Document

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