If dismal hibernal weather is causing you to be housebound, you can check out the Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site for more than on-line shopping. The Met has made hundreds of their out-of-print books available on-line for both reading and downloading. Besides books on ceramics, armor, paintings, costume, and sculpture, you can check out such titles as:
- Ancient Egyptian Representations of Turtles
- Cochinreal Red: The Art History of a Color
- Andean Four Cornered Hats
- Li Kiung-lino Classics of Filial Piety
Some of the books feature horses. One of my favorites is "Man and the Horse: An Illustrated History of Equestrian Apparel. " It includes interesting information about ambling horses, and how to interpret what it means when the artist chose to depict a rider on a trotting horse versus an ambling horse.
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