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BOOKS ABOUT HORSES, EQUESTRIAN
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Horses in Art Posters and Prints
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social studies > art > HORSES IN ART | horses 1 | 2 < animals < mammals < zoology < biology < science
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By looking at how horses have been depicted in art we can learn about the unique relationship between humans and horses. Horses were domesticated from wild horses by at least 2000 BC, as evidenced by elaborate burials in the southern Urals (Russia) showing chariots with horses arranged to imitate running.
The Lascaux cave paintings, in the Dordogne River region of southwestern France, date between 15,000 and 13,000 BC and include 364 images of horses among the 2,000 figures. The colors used in the caves were from naturally occuring clay earth minerals mixed with any number of binders - yellow is from ochre, a hydrated iron oxide.
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Centaurs, from Greek mythology, are depicted as a human torso connected to a horse's body. Centaurs represent humanity caught in animal passions, usually experienced as wild and unpredictable.
Chiron, the last centaur, was wise and revered as a teacher.
Dante Alighieri, author Divine Comedy, print
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Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology, was sired by Poseidon and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. One version of the myth is that Perseus beheaded Medusa and Pegasus sprang from her neck with his brother Chrysaor.
The name Pegasus may be related back to the ancient weather god Pihassasas; the word for lightening, as he was the carrier of thunderbolts for Zeus; or from the Greek word pegai for ‘spring’ where the Muses drink from the fountain at Hippocrene created when Pegasus sharp hoof struck the ground.
Pegasus, tamed by the Greek hero Belleropon, using the golden bridle from Athena, helped defeated the Chimaera.
Pegasus was honored at his death (he was mortal) by being transformed into a constellation by Zeus. You can find Pegasus in the northern sky, it is one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy. FYI - A star in this constellation, 51 Pegasi, is the first Sun-like star known to have an extrasolar planet.
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The Greek god Apollo, who was responsible for light, was also the only one capable of controlling the team of mighty horses who pulled the chariot of the sun across the sky. One day Apollo relented to the pestering of his half human son Phaeton to take the chariot for a spin. The “joy” ride was an utter disaster - Phaeton was too immature to control nature - the horses raced too high and the Earth was unseasonably cold, plunged too low and the Earth was scorched. Zeus, the king of the gods and Apollo's father, was so disgusted with Apollo's irresponsibility he destroyed Phaeton with a thunderbolt. (FYI - Phaeton is also the name the French gave to a sporty style of horse drawn carriage.)
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Rocinante is the name of Don Quixote's horse, in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes.
Cervantes created a play on words to coin the name Rocinante. Rocin is Spanish and translates as “nag”, or rough man, and ante translates as “before”, so the meaning could be “previously a nag, or rough man”.
Author John Steinbeck traveled in a specially made camper he called Rocinante in his trip across America that he took with his dog, that was recounted in Travels with Charley.
Don Quixote's sidekick, Sancho Panza, rides a donkey named “Rucio” which means “Dapple”.
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