Horses in art information

Horses have appeared in works of art throughout history, frequently as depictions of the horse in battle. The horse appears less frequently in modern art...

use in the production of Dala horses. Many early Dala horses were not painted at all, but in the beginning of the 19th century painting them in a single...

Blue Horses or Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses) is a 1911 painting by German painter and printmaker Franz Marc (1880–1916). In 1911 Marc...

chariot horse; known as the king of all horses Árvakr and Alsviðr, horses that pull Sól's chariot Blóðughófi, Freyr's horse Falhófnir, a horse of the gods...

touches in 1855. The large work measures 96.25 in × 199.5 in (244.5 cm × 506.7 cm). The painting depicts dealers selling horses at the horse market held...

of Blue Horses is one of several animal paintings by Marc, among which a large group depict horses. It is one of the most notable of those in which he...

great lords—they'll throw the pits in your face." The women are surrounded by a parade of naked men riding horses, donkeys, unicorns, camels and other...

The blue color of the horse represents peace and the calm state of mind that Marc would have had when drawing it. Blue horses are symbolically bound...

such as the original chisel marks and the veins on the horses' bellies. Similar features in the British Museum collection have been scraped and scrubbed...

Memorial of Captain Edward Cheney at Gaddesby showing him on a dying horse – he had five horses shot out from under him at the Battle of Waterloo and led the...

history, mules and donkeys, as well as horses played a crucial role in providing support to armies in the field. Horses were well suited to the warfare tactics...

including people, horses, dogs and deer, disappearing into the dark forest in the distance. It was Uccello's last known painting before his death in 1475. The...

The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set...

In these stories, men were visited by horses or hags, giving rise to the terms "hag-riding" and "mare-riding", and women were believed to engage in sex...

study produced by the charity Art History in schools suggests that the waggon has stopped in the river to allow the horses to drink and to cool down, but...

with the horse cult, with multiple accounts attesting holy horses being dedicated to him. Olafs saga Tryggvasonar describes how holy horses were kept...

In China, horses are present both physically and in art and beliefs, particularly those relating to astrology. In 1985, China had the world's largest...

Horses Leaving the Sea or Horses Coming Out of the Sea is an 1860 oil on canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix, signed and dated by the artist in 1860 and...

modern art historians. In fact Stubbs's earliest canvases on his visit in 1762 included a pair of much smaller paintings of groups of standing horses, one...

Estienne, the same art dealer as Horses Leaving the Sea, and so the two works are usually considered as a pair. The work was sold in Paris on 12 February...

Moderne Galerie. Little Blue Horse is one of the Saarbrücker Sammlung's most famous works. List of works by Franz Marc Blue Horses "Concentric Group - Oskar...

lost, for the painting Blue Horses (1911). The painting became known worldwide on the occasion of the Schwabing art discovery in November 2013. It was one...

group of seven people departs in search of exotic meats. They travel on all manner of transport‍—‌bicycles, carts and horses‍—‌from their point of departure...