Dan Huby / zoom
Prehistoric horse in England, seen from air
The Apocalypse: "Behold a white horse: And he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: And he went forth conquering."
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Detail of illuminated manuscript, Poitiers, 12th century, British Library |
Mohammed Ascends to Heaven, Turkish, toward 1540 / zoom
It is associated with...
- Founding legends
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Washington Crosses the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, 1851 / zoom |
The picture adorns American schoolrooms.
Publication of 1926 (kindly translated by Mirko Disconzi)
"For the first time since the 1908 earthquake, Messina parades the statues of the city's legendary founders on August 15th.”
- Chivalry and courage:
Fifteenth-century miniature / zoom
Joan of Arc before Orleans
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Saint George and the Dragon by Johann Kônig, announcement at Zurich auction, 2024
The saint's horse is always white: Please click.
Its majesty fits the kings
- In Europe
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Russian chronicle / Internet, no further information |
The headdress identifies the tsar.
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The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Fozzoli, toward 1460 / zoom |
Florentine symbol of royal beauty
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Internet / unknown photographer |
At Saint James of Compostela, a Spanish king fights the Moors (16th century).
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Movie for Arte, the Franco-German cultural television station, by Historia magazine |
White horses lead the coach of Empress Maria-Thérèse of Austria when she assumes the crown of Hungary (in 1741)
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- In France
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| Internet, no photographer named |
Window of the cathedral of Laon, 13th century
Henri IV at the Battle of Arques, attributed to Jacob Bunel, early 17th century / zoom
Henri IV fighting
Louis XIV Receives the Keys to Strasbourg on October 23 1681 by Constantyn Francken, toward 1700 / zoom
Louis XIV prepares a royal entry.
Maurice Leloir in Richelieu by T. Cahu, 1901 / J. Beaujoint, History of City Hall by 1883 (in French)
Richelieu and Louis XIII after they crush the Protestants / Henri III flees after the Day of Barricades.
Marginals adopt the symbolism:
Descente from la Courtille by Charles Nanteuil, 1842
The annual descente of the poor from the eastern heights of Paris
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Already shown ( please click and usually scroll down)
A crusading king arriving in Constantinople painted in the mid-15th century, as well as Charles VII entering Rouen in 1449, François I's royal entry of 1540, a king presiding over an execution in a manuscript of the end of the 15th century and in an altarpiece of 1611, Rubens on Marie de Médicis, 1624, Louis XIV at the Crossing of the Rhine, n.d. but after 1672, and Louis XIV's royal entry in an illustration of 1931.
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The hero's horse is white even in defeat, if the public backs his cause:
- The chief of the Gauls submits to Caesar with dignity, in a schoolbook for French children after defeat by Prussia:
- But if defeat is only a personal incident, such as Henri II being mortally wounded in a tournament, his horse is brown and the adversary's white:
Sixteenth-century ceramic, Blois château museum / Carolyn Ristau
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Modern leaders choose white horses...
Street-fair painting
Chadaev, hero of the Soviet civil war
Robert Gueï, President of the Ivory Coast (2000-2002). Opponents kill the horse, thinking that Gueï draws supernatural power from it.
Le Cheval, animal politique by Jean-Louis Gouraud, ed. Fabre, 2009 |
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, 2011-17
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The tie with royalty is rooted:
The 19th-century artist takes the tradition of the white horse for granted, though Spanish queens rode mules because they were not supposed to fight.
The prince in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, 1959
Ad facing the Louvre, 2022
Record cover, 2024
End of this section.
IV.8.
Have the kings become subversive?
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These pages have shown
the importance of the royal imprint.
Why is so little said about it?
These pages have shown
the importance of the royal imprint.
Why is so little said about it?
IV.8.
Have the kings become subversive?
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