Tag: HORSEMAN
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists. Hocine Ziani’s The Numidian horseman, with footnotes, #94
Numidian cavalry was a type of light cavalry developed by the Numidians. After they were used by Hannibal during the Second Punic War, they were described by the Roman historian Livy as “by far the best horsemen in Africa.” The Numidian cavalry’s horses, ancestors of the Berber horse, were small compared to other horses of the…
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Adolf Schreyer, ARAB HORSEMAN 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main – July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He studied art, first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He first…
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