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The Robin Hood Cave Horse (previously known as the Ochre Horse) is a fragment of a rib engraved with a horse 's head, discovered in 1876, in the Robin Hood Cave in Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. It is the only piece of Upper Paleolithic portable art showing an animal to have been found in Britain. [1][2][3] It is now in the British Museum, but ...
Black knight. The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces. Each player starts the game with two knights on the b- and g- files, each located between a ...
51.90. The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right is a drawing on paper in pierre noir pencil and red chalk, attributed to the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci and kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This drawing, whose dimensions have been reduced by the removal of certain existing parts at the time of its ...
Germany stamp with the painting Blue Horse I, issued in 2012 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Der Blaue Reiter. Almost the entire height of the portrait-format painting is taken up by a foal painted in blue, facing the viewer and tilting its head slightly to one side. The upper body is light blue with white spots, while the hooves and mane ...
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 65 cm × 81.2 cm (25.5 in × 32 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse) is a painting executed by artist Leonora Carrington and is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1][2][3] She began the painting in London in 1937 and completed it in ...
Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal. The horse has been associated with numerous roles and magical gifts throughout the ...
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