Tag: horses in history

Mares and Foals Through the Ages in Art History Foaling season is the ideal time to take a tour of...

The Heavy Horse in Australian Art  From pulling whims in mines, to carting wool bales to promoting...

Bucket List of the World’s Best Horse Museums Horse museums are big players in the field of...

Forging Ahead: Farriery in Art Since the horse was first domesticated about ten thousand years...

The Divine Marwari Horses of the Mughals In the Mughal Court, the only horse fit and noble enough...

From bearskin saddle blankets to hoods resembling knight’s caparisons, we’ve come a long way in the history of horse rugging.

Ancient Equestrian Connections By reflecting on and studying the beautiful artworks and writings...

The Straw Ride Painter Lucy Kemp-Welch was commissioned, in 1918, to record the remarkable...

Horses Coming out of the Sea and Arab Horses Fighting are mature works, painted late in Delacroix’s career, only three years before he died.

Do horses also look like their owners? George Morland: Hack or Hero? It’s true that some people do...

Landseer’s ‘Pretty Horse Breaker’ Edwin Landseer’s The Shrew Tamed (also known as The Pretty Horse...