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| Greek Culture in South Italy Horse Head 3rd century BC terracotta Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hellenistic Greek Culture Horse late 2nd-1st century BC bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hellenistic Greek Culture Horse and Rider 1st century BC marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous European Artist Mirror-Back with Riding Couple ca. 1325-50 ivory relief Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Horse and Rider startled by a Snake ca. 1500-1525 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| circle of Leone Leoni Mounted Warrior ca. 1530-50 bronze statuette Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Antonio Susini Striding Horse ca. 1590 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Ornamental Horse Head 16th century marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Leonhard Kern Galloping Horse ca. 1630 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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The goat without ears coughs
softly. Canvas flaps ripple,
starred banners; this is the tent
of animals partial or possessed
of extra parts: the four-legged hen,
the ram sprouting a bouquet
of horns. The ewe drags a hooved bundle
on the dirty straw, and in a corner
the most troubling gaze,
a face that looks up as if
through a foot of lake water:
WORLD'S SMALLEST HORSE, B. 1976,
D. 1980. The paint on the rough sign
bleeds. And on the tent flap
someone painted him galloping,
shorter than daisies, on a meadow
impossibly green, mountains stunned
by rain. He never galloped;
the crooked little legs held him
a foot above the dirt he studied
day after day and now cannot
even enter. Cotton batting pushes
the iridescent glass eyes slightly askew,
his mouth sewn up into that crooked
but somehow forgiving smile, as if
even after suffering the lifetime
of a small horse it is all right
to remain on earth with his blind,
satisfied stare – lone star of squalor
in the miserable tent, my teacher.
– Mark Doty (1987)
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| Caspar Gras Kicking Horse ca. 1630 bronze statuette Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Study for The Vision of Constantine ca. 1662-63 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Matthias Steinl Emperor Joseph I triumphing over Personification of Chaos 1693 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Camillo Rusconi Study for Peter the Great on Horseback 1719-20 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Edward Thomason Medal commemorating the Elgin Marbles 1820 bronze British Museum |
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| Edmond Bénard Sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet in his studio at work on Equestrian Relief-Sculpture ca. 1880-90 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |