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| attributed to Severo da Ravenna Rearing Horse ca. 1520 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Giovanni Francesco Rustici Rider on Rearing Horse ca. 1530-50 bronze statuette Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Virgil Solis Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene ca. 1530-62 engraving British Museum |
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| Benedetto Cervi Youth leading a Rearing Horse ca. 1530-31 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Jacob Fröhlich Rearing Horse ca. 1575-1600 silver-gilt statuette Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Artist after Polidoro da Caravaggio Lion attacking a Horse 1578 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Rearing Horse ca. 1580-1600 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Paolo Farinati Page holding the Reins of a Rearing Horse ca. 1589 drawing British Museum |
from A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
And I realize: though I have walked drenched in spring rains
my bare thighs have not hugged your warm bellows in a downpour.
For though your manic tribe is mine, the boreal chargers,
mere rooms, a migrant's mangy stations, have detained me.
For while historians of cultures hot on the spoor of roots among
their root clans have heard you drum past, they looked up only briefly.
For though engravers assumed you would stay, given their way with your
musculature, accoutrements, wavy harness, tip-toe grooms,
gear draped over your cruppers like an evening gown, its ratios
and metalwork continuous with Genghis Khan's and a jockey's,
their inky mastery frames cosily misleading questions:
which posthouse this evening, what pasture tomorrow?
Whereas you inquire into rupture and the unfenced: what thunder
between flesh and ground, what surge from the cells even past sundown?
– John Peck (2001)
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| Anonymous Artist working in Rome Woman on Rearing Horse ca. 1599-1622 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jacques Callot Study of a Rearing Horse, viewed from the back ca. 1616 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Aniello Falcone Clash of Cavalry and Infantry before 1665 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia |
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| attributed to Leonaert Bramer Rearing Horse before 1674 drawing British Museum |
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| Guillaume Coustou the Elder The Marly Horses (one of two) 1739-45 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Guillaume Coustou the Elder The Marly Horses (one of two) 1739-45 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Eugène Delacroix Jaguar attacking a Horse ca. 1855 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Peter Behrens German Workers Union Exhibition, Cologne Art in Handcrafts, Industry, Trade and Architecture 1914 lithograph Los Angeles County Museum of Art |