Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Horses Harnessed (to the Service of Mortals)

Ancient Rome
Funerary Relief of a Circus Official
ca. AD 100
marble
Musei Vaticani, Rome

Giulio Romano
Battle of the Horatii
ca. 1538
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Francesco Salviati
Triumph of Camillus
ca. 1543-45
fresco
Sala dell' Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Francesco Salviati
Triumph of Camillus
ca. 1543-45
fresco
Sala dell' Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Domenico Gargiulo and Viviano Codazzi
Triumphal Entry of Constantine into Rome
ca. 1636-38
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Francesco de Mura
Disciplines of the Olympic Games in Antiquity
1741-43
fresco
Palazzo Reale, Turin

Anonymous Artist
Intaglio with Two-Horse Chariot
(after antique gem in the collection of Charles Townley)
late 18th century
wash drawing
British Museum

Paul Sandby
Carriage and Pair with Coachman
1774
wash drawing
Yale Center for British Art

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Quadriga
(after an engraved gem by Pietro Santi Bartoli)
ca. 1775-80
porcelain plaque in black basalt with encaustic painting
British Museum

Jean-Guillaume Moitte
Scene from the Arch of Titus, Rome
ca. 1791
terracotta relief
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

George Stubbs
Prince of Wales's Phaeton
1793
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Carle Vernet
Death of Hippolytus
1800
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Jacques-Laurent Agasse
The Mail Guard
ca. 1818
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Constantin Guys
A Carriage in London
ca. 1848-56
watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edgar Degas
At the Races in the Countryside
1869
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston