Horses in art

chess piece

late Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark

traditional carved, painted wooden horse statuette

copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer

children's horse toy

relief

series of prints by William Hogarth

Ancient Thracian divinity

tapestry series of the late Middle Ages

series of 22 prints in aquatint and etching, with retouching in drypoint and burin, created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya between 1815 and 1823

thumb|The , Diocesan Museum, Bamberg The '''''' () is a Byzantine silk tapestry which represents the triumphal return of a Byzantine Emperor from a victorious campaign. The piece was purchased, or possibly received as a gift, by Gunther von Bamberg, Bishop of Bamberg, during his 1064–65 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Gunther died on his return journey, and was buried with it in the Bamberg Cathedral. The fabric was rediscovered in 1830, and is now exhibited in the Bamberg Diocesan Museum.

1914 woodcut by Raoul Dufy

part of the Vatican Necropolis

Roman mosaic from the archaeological site of Carthage

series of tapestries representing the months of the year, extant in several editions

four portraits of Afghan horses

1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso

Russian Orthodox icon

ancient Attic-Greek black-figure amphora shape

print by Pablo Picasso

drawing series

series of woodcut prints commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I

Minotauromachy (La Minotauromachie) is a 19.5 by 27.4” etching and engraving created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in Paris in 1935. The etching and resulting prints, literally entitled Minotaur Battle, feature many compositional aspects and themes seen often in Picasso’s art throughout the 1930s. These include the Minotaur, an unconscious or dying female matador on an injured horse, a young girl holding a candle and flowers, a man scaling a ladder, and two women watching with doves from a window. Created during a time of personal turmoil within which Picasso created little artwork, Minotaur

art of representing the horse