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Essay

Horse Armor in Europe

March 1, 2010

By Dirk H. Breiding

Mankind has used animals such as onagers (wild donkeys), horses, camels, elephants, and dogs in conflicts for thousands of years, but no other animal has been employed so widely and continuously and was at times so comprehensively protected as the horse.
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Shaffron and Sultanate: Horse Armor for Indo-Islamic Royalty

January 15, 2015

By Rachel Parikh

Mellon Curatorial Fellow Rachel Parikh examines a shaffron (a piece of armor for a horse's head) potentially used by Indo-Islamic royalty.
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Connections: Heroes

June 27, 2011
Security manager Jose Rivero contemplates the different types of hero archetypes, from comic book super heroes to religious figures.
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Alice Cordelia Morse (1863–1961)

May 1, 2009

By Mindell Dubansky

Morse enjoyed working in many styles, while constantly adapting her designs both to complement each book’s theme and appeal to the widest audience.
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Elegant and Exact: George Stubbs's
The Anatomy of the Horse

July 16, 2015

By Carol Santoleri

Research Assistant Carol Santoleri explores George Stubbs's groundbreaking 1766 treatise.
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Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints

October 1, 2004

By Wendy Thompson

Just as the emperor Augustus had claimed descent from Aeneas, a son of Venus, so many Italian princes traced their ancestry to the participants in the Trojan War or sought to equate their own accomplishments with the deeds of these heroes.
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Assistant Curator James Doyle explores a house form on view in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas thought to have served as a temporary dwelling for gods and goddesses in the human world.
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The Portraits of Volker Hermes

June 30, 2023

By Christopher Alessandrini

The artist behind a series of popular photocollages discusses the signs and symbols of portraiture.
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Charles Ray (American, born Chicago, Illinois, 1953)

Date: 2019
Accession Number: 2019.556

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Horses

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore)

Date: 1530–40
Accession Number: 80.3.318

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Horses

attributed to Francesco Allegrini (Italian, Cantiano (?) 1615/20–after 1679 Gubbio (?))

Date: 1624–63
Accession Number: 80.3.317

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Horses

attributed to Francesco Allegrini (Italian, Cantiano (?) 1615/20–after 1679 Gubbio (?))

Date: 1624–63
Accession Number: 80.3.312

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Horses

attributed to Francesco Allegrini (Italian, Cantiano (?) 1615/20–after 1679 Gubbio (?))

Date: 1624–63
Accession Number: 80.3.316

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Horses

Malcolm Morley (American (born England) London 1931–2018 New York)

Date: 1982
Accession Number: 2003.433.66

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Horses

Doug and Mike Starn (American, born Abesecon, New Jersey, 1961)

Date: 1985–86
Accession Number: 1991.1324

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Horses

Paul-Albert Besnard (French, Paris 1849–1934 Paris)

Date: 1894
Accession Number: 67.187.54

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Date: 11th century
Accession Number: 11.205.2

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Attributed to The Horse-Head Amphorae

Date: ca. 600 BCE
Accession Number: 22.139.7