Julie Robson

Horses in Art

Who do you think made the first paintings of

horses?

Cave Paintings at Lascaux, France (c17,300 years old)

How would they have been painted?

How else might cave-dwellershave made pictures?

Petroglyph or carved image

White Horse, Uffington

White Horse, Westbury, Wiltshire

Ancient Greece

Parthenon, Athens, 438 BC

Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon. Acropolis,

Athens, 447-432 BC

Parthenon

Elgin Marbles at the British Museum, London

Copies of Elgin Marbles at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool

Marco Aurelio, Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome

Ancient Rome

Roman Mosaics

Sea Horse, Bath

Bayeux Tapestry

Bayeux Tapestry

Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano 1454-7

Albrecht Dürer, The Knight, Death and the Devil 1513

Peter Paul Rubens, Battle of Anghiari (after Leonardo) 1603

Leonardo’s Horse in Milan(copy 1999)

Antony Van DyckCharles l on Horseback 1633

Théodore Géricault , The Charging Chasseur 1812

Prague, St Wenceslas Statue, Josef Václav Myslbek c1887

David Cerny, Suspended Horse 1999Prague, Lucerna Passage

Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), Scotland Forever 1881

George Stubbs, Molly Longlegs c 1761

Horse Frightened by a Lion 1770

George StubbsWhistlejacket c1762

Muybridge

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Edgar Dégas

John Skeaping

John Skeaping, Hyperion, 1961 (Newmarket)

Mark Wallinger, Half Brother, 1994-5

Mark Wallinger, Brown’s (Mrs. E.W.Brown) 1993

Brown’s (Mr. P.J.Brown)

Mark Wallinger, Ghost 2001

Mark WallingerAngel of the South

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

Picasso

Franz Marc

Jo Taylor

Fallen Horse

Tony Evans, Horse 2009

Nic Fiddian-Green, Greekhead-Artemis 2010

Nic Fiddian-Green, Horse, 2012

Gunning, Lucy, The Horse Impressionists, 1994

Where can I see horse paintings

and sculptures in Liverpool?

Equestrian sculptures at St George’s Hall, Liverpool

Red Rum, Aintree, Liverpool

Waiting, Albert Dock, Liverpool

The Great Escape, Liverpool One

Copies of Elgin Marbles at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool

George Stubbs, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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