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| Antonio del Pollaiuolo Study for Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza ca. 1480-85 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Isaia da Pisa Nero and Poppaea on Horseback (after an ancient coin) ca. 1458-60 marble relief Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Andrea del Verrocchio Equestrian Statue of Bartolomeo Colleone 1481-95 bronze Campo di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice |
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| Titian Emperor Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg 1548 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Antonio Tempesta Statue of King Henri II by Daniele da Volterra (erected in Palazzo Rucellai, Rome) ca. 1600-1608 etching Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma 1603 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Anthony van Dyck Equestrian Portrait of Anton Giulio Brignole-Sala 1627 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
Deceiving World
Deceiving world, that with alluring toys
Hast made my life the subject of thy scorn,
And scornest now to lend thy fading joys
To length my life, whom friends have left forlorn,
How well are they that die ere they be born,
And never see thy sleights, which few men shun
Till unawares they helpless are undone.
Oft have I sung of Love and of his fire,
But now I find that poet was advised
Which made full feasts increasers of desire,
And proves weak love was with the poor despised,
For when the life with food is not sufficed,
What thought of love, what motion of delight,
What pleasance can proceed from such a wight?
Witness my want, the murderer of my wit.
My ravished sense, of wonted fury reft,
Wants such conceit, as should in poems fit
Set down the sorrow wherein I am left.
But therefore have high heav'ns their gifts bereft,
Because so long they lent them me to use,
And I so long their bounty did abuse.
O, that a year were granted me to live,
And for that year my former was restored,
What rules of life, what counsel would I give!
How should my sin with sorrow be deplored!
But I must die of every man abhorred.
Time loosely spent will not again be won,
My time is loosely spent, and I undone.
– Robert Greene (1592)
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| Gaspar de Crayer Equestrian Portrait of King Philip IV ca. 1628-32 oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Equestrian Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán ca. 1636 oil on canvas Museo-del-Prado-Madrid |
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| Jacques Callot Study for Equestrian Portrait of Louis de Lorraine before 1635 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Equestrian Portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden 1653-54 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Charles Le Brun Pierre Séguier, Chancelier de France, riding in State ca. 1655-61 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Artist Hunting Portrait of Henrietta Adelaide of Savoy and her husband Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria ca. 1660 oil on canvas La Venaria Reale, Turin |
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| Pierre Mignard King Louis XIV crowned by Victory 1673 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Christoph Maucher Alexander the Great in Battle (fragment from the Throne of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I) 1677 carved amber relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |