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Images of horses adorn some of man’s earliest art. One of the oldest depictions of horses is in the Cave of Pont d’Arc in southern France, painted over 30,000 years ago. Horses have often been ...
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) [2] [3] is a domesticated, ... Both live horses and iconic images of horses are used in advertising to promote a variety of products ...
Hack, a basic riding horse, particularly in the UK, also includes Show hack horses used in competition. Heavy warmblood, heavy carriage and riding horses, predecessors to the modern warmbloods, several old-style breeds still in existence today. Hunter, a type of jumping horse, either a show hunter or a field hunter
1848 French image of a "Turkmene" horse. The ancestors of the breed may date back to animals living 3,000 years ago, known by a number of names. [8] The precise ancestry is difficult to trace, however, because prior to about 1600 AD, horse breeds in the modern sense did not exist; rather, horses were identified by local strain or type.
The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting succesive phases in the movement of a horse, shot in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had ...
The Noriker horse, also historically known as the Pinzgauer horse, is a moderately heavy Austrian draught horse breed. It is considered indigenous to the central Alpine region of Europe, and is believed to have originated around the highest mountain of Austria , the Grossglockner.
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The world's largest Dala horse, made of concrete and located in Avesta, Sweden. The world's largest Dala horse painting, painted by Shai Dahan in New York City 2019.. A Dala horse (Swedish: dalahäst) or Dalecarlian horse is a traditional carved, painted wooden statue of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna (Dalecarlia).