A Vienna coachman, 1844.
Category Archives: Austria
Mozart, Uccello, Caravaggio and a Riding School Carved from Rock
I don’t blog much about the work I’m doing on book two (The Age of the Horse), but here’s a sneak peak of something I’ll be writing about. In November I was lucky enough to have three days at the Equestrian Academy at Versailles, where they were rehearsing for this performance in the old riding …
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To Have Wished My Self a Horse
When the right vertuous E.W. and I were at the Emperour’s court togither [in Vienna in 1574], wee gave our selves to learne horsemanship of Ion Pietro Pugliano . . . He said . . . horsemen were the noblest of soldiers . . . they were the maisters of war, and ornaments of peace, …
Sunday Morning Time Travel
Wonderful news for overworked writers who don’t have time to maintain their blogs: British Pathé have uploaded their stock of vintage film clips to YouTube. As the old slogan of the British tabloid the News of the World used to claim, “all human life is there”, and quite a bit of horsey life too. So …
Fair Girls on Grey Horses
Fantastic news via Fran Jurga’s Equus blog: Hannah Zeitlhofer, one of the two first women to be admitted to the Spanish Riding School of Vienna (video from 2008), qualified as an “Bereiteran’wärterin” on the 1st May. This means she can now take part in the famous school’s public displays. British-American rider Sojourner Morrell dropped out …
Viennese Fancies
My spies have been on the look-out in Vienna: Translation: “I don’t want a dress, I want a pony!” (thanks to James Kennaway for this) Street art from Madeleine Berkhemer, spotted by Sarah Everts. And more unusual street art captured by Michael Scott Moore.