Medieval horse art

egg-horse L'estoire de Merlin, France ca. 1316 (BL, Add 10292, fol. 213r)

Note the Durer influence, even to the signature. Hans Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German printmaker who did his best work as an engraver, and was also a designer of woodcuts and a painter and miniaturist. He is one of the most important of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making old master prints in the generation after Dürer. ___ Light restoration by plumleaves

Medieval Bestiary - Introduction to the Beasts

From a drawing in ''The National and Domestic History of England', William Aubrey, 1867.

Medieval Bestiary - Introduction to the Beasts

Beautiful Kranich: Count Anton Günther’s Favorite Oldenburg

a Unicorn is a mythological creature that has cloven hooves (much like a stag's), a lion's tail, and the body of a horse. It also has one spiraling horn in the middle of its forehead.

Medieval Stable Master and Grooms were responsible for horses and stables. Explore what this occupation was like in medieval times.

Taken from the fabulous website by Karen Larsdatter: http://www.larsdatter.com/gloves.htm: MITTENS A leather glove, 15th century, found in London; additional views 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; also here Two leather mittens (both for the left hand) were found in a chest on the Mary Rose (1545); a line drawing of one of them can be found on page 14 of the 2005 Annual Report of the Mary Rose Museum An infant's knit mitten, 16th century (also here) Embroidered mittens, c. 1600; use V&A's Access to…