Stories about painting, sculpture, architecture, history

 🎨🖌️ Woman and horse on the canvases of artists "Art is a free bird, which, when it wants, soars in the sky, and when it wants, descends to the earth, and there is no force in the world that can fetter it or change it." ✍️D. Gibran They soar, harmonious, similar in impetuosity, grace and beauty. A horse is one of those animals that is easy to find in paintings, and in art in general, so much has it entered our lives. This subgenre of painting is called hippic (from the Greek hippos - horse). In connection with scientific and technological progress, starting from the 19th century, the practical popularity of these animals has been declining and is more aesthetic in nature. On the canvases of famous (and not so famous) artists, it is interesting to observe changes in clothing, the shape of the saddle and the appearance of accessories for women's horse riding Sources: tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com, Pinterest

 👑 "Directed" Queen - Elizabeth (Isabella) de Bourbon, Princess of France, who had the title of Madame Royal, Queen of Spain (1602-1644) before marriage) She was considered one of the most beautiful princesses of their time, the Spanish people called her "desirable." On November 22, 1602, in the castle of Fontainebleau, Korolev Maria Medici, the wife of Henry IV, made her second child. Unfortunately, it was a girl, and she was given the name Elizabeth. Maria Medici was always strange and now remained true to herself - she stated that she wanted to have only sons, and that the little princess would be best drowned. I do not know how much this historical joke is, but how true, but in any case, he conveys the spiritual qualities of the queen of France more than truthfully. Henry, not as an example of his wife, was a loving father, rejoiced at any of his child (and not very much to his own) and reassured Maria with a bright political thought that princesses were neede...