The Artful Horse Journal

Sprezzatura in the Saddle: Castiglione and Courtly Horsemanship

Sprezzatura in the Saddle: Castiglione and Cour...

The mastery of sprezzatura, the concealment of effort was an important feature of manege training from the early 1500's and is still in effect to some level today.  The rider...

Sprezzatura in the Saddle: Castiglione and Cour...

The mastery of sprezzatura, the concealment of effort was an important feature of manege training from the early 1500's and is still in effect to some level today.  The rider...

The Neapolitan School and the Refinement of Italian Equestrianism

The Neapolitan School and the Refinement of Ita...

La Broue was trained in the Italian tradition under Giovanni Battista Pignatelli, whose Neapolitan academy shaped an entire generation of European riding masters. His text was the first to be...

The Neapolitan School and the Refinement of Ita...

La Broue was trained in the Italian tradition under Giovanni Battista Pignatelli, whose Neapolitan academy shaped an entire generation of European riding masters. His text was the first to be...

Renaissance Italian Horsemanship

Renaissance Italian Horsemanship

It was through Pignatelli’s pupils that this Neapolitan inheritance of Equitation crossed the Alps and blossomed into the French classical tradition.

Renaissance Italian Horsemanship

It was through Pignatelli’s pupils that this Neapolitan inheritance of Equitation crossed the Alps and blossomed into the French classical tradition.

The Spanish Horse in Renaissance Naples: The Foundation of Collection

The Spanish Horse in Renaissance Naples: The Fo...

After thousands of years of breeding and training and battle, it became a celebrated war horse, then the Iberian horse gains great prestige during the Italian Renaissance and beyond to...

The Spanish Horse in Renaissance Naples: The Fo...

After thousands of years of breeding and training and battle, it became a celebrated war horse, then the Iberian horse gains great prestige during the Italian Renaissance and beyond to...

The Birth of Academic Equitation in Renaissance Italy (1550-1560

The Birth of Academic Equitation in Renaissance...

Equestrian art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

The Birth of Academic Equitation in Renaissance...

Equestrian art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.