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The Case of the Fake Medici-Ricciardi Horse Head
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini For several days, an image created with artificial intelligence has been going viral on social media, presented as the famous Medici-Ricciardi horse head, which is housed in the National…
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Welcome back to Paradise!
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini We are back at Monte Velho, in Portugal, where the Lima Mayer family breeds magnificent Lusitano horses, destined to shine in international dressage competitions, with the commitment…
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The adventure of Monte Velho, the equestrian paradise of Lusitano horses
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini At the Monte Velho estate, in Portugal, the Lima Meyer family breeds magnificent Lusitano horses. Less than thirty years after its creation, this real equestrian paradise, which is…
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The many souls of a genius
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Bartabas, the great French equestrian artist, founder of Zingaro, reflects back over his life and career in a beautiful book, recently published in France. A book in which…
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Equibender. A practical solution for the lateral flexion of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREGianluca Coppetta, talented rider and equestrian artist, invented a simple device to be used in the work from the ground to positively influence the lateral flexion of the horse. A non-coercive…
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What do we mean when we talk of classical horsemanship?
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Although the expression “classical horsemanship” has long and widely been in use, its meaning continues to be rather vague and ambiguous. In some cases, in fact, the equestrian…
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A very important discovery: the equestrian treatise of the Lord of Lugny
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In an absorbing and very interesting book, just published in France, Frédéric Magnin presents a hitherto unknown equestrian treatise of a French author of the late Renaissance. It…
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The role of the horse and of jousting in Renaissance culture (part 2)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article, we saw how horses and jousting played an important symbolic role during the Renaissance in the representation of the power of…
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The role of the horse and of jousting in Renaissance culture (part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREdi Giovanni Battista Tomassini This is the first part of the text of the lecture I gave at the Biblioteca Malatestiana of Cesena, on the 19th of May 2019, in the context…
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New information about the life of Cesare Fiaschi
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini New interesting and unknown details of Cesare Fiaschi’s biography emerge from the study of some ancient sources, which illuminate, with a new light, one of the most interesting…
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Four millennia of equestrian civilization on display (part2)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Golden ornaments of Ostrogoth harnesses, Viking bits and stirrups, rare ancient Chinese bits and cheekpieces are among the most extraordinary specimens displayed for the first time in the…
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Four millennia of equestrian civilization on display (part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Many important pieces of the Giannelli Collection of ancient bits are displayed for the first time in the exhibition Il Cavallo: 4.000 anni di storia, open until August 19,…
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