These anatomical drawings aided later artists. He spent eighteen months dissecting equine carcasses and had an engraver produce bookplates of his studies. A childhood interest in anatomy was applied to the horse. George Stubbs, born in 1724, became so associated with his equestrian subjects that he was known as "the horse painter". 18th and 19th centuries Eugène Delacroix, Horse Frightened by Lightning, 1825–1829, watercolour, lead white on paper, 23.6 × 32 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853–1855, Metropolitan Museum of Art Equine sporting art also became established in this era, as the tradition of horse racing emerged under Tudor patronage. In the Baroque era, the tradition of equine portraiture was established, with artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Diego Velázquez portraying regal subjects atop their mounts. In 1482 the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro, commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to create the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco, however, Leonardo's horse was never completed, (until it was replicated in the late 20th century). Painters of this period who portrayed the horse included Paolo Uccello, Benozzo Gozzoli, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Andrea Mantegna, and Titian. The Renaissance period starting in the 14th century brought a resurgence of the horse in art. The horse was less prevalent in early Christian and Byzantine art, overwhelmed by the dominance of religious themes.
The Horses of Saint Mark are the sole surviving example from Classical Antiquity of a monumental statue of the Quadriga. The Greeks and Romans invented the equestrian statue the best surviving example being the Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. Horse-drawn chariots were commonly depicted in ancient works, for example on the Standard of Ur circa 2500BC. The equine image was common in ancient Egyptian and Grecian art, more refined images displaying greater knowledge of equine anatomy appeared in Classical Greece and later Roman work.
The Upper Palaeolithic Vogelherd figurines discovered in Germany, miniature sculptures made of mammoth ivory attributed to paleo-humans of the Aurignacian culture that are among the world's oldest-known works of figurative art, include a figure of a horse.Īncient World Horse and saddle, Tang dynasty Prehistoric hill figures have been carved in the shape of the horse, specifically the Uffington White Horse, an example of the tradition of horse carvings upon hillsides, which having existed for thousands of years continues into the current age. The horse appeared in prehistoric cave paintings such as those in Lascaux, estimated to be about 17,000 years old. Metropolitan Museum of Art Assyrian horses, Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal reliefs from Nineveh, 7th century BCE See also: Trojan horse and Leonardo's horse Prehistory Bronze Statuette of a Horse, late 2nd – 1st century B.C.
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