In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Here Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico depicts a group of four larger-than-life horses within an outdoor architectural scene. Two smaller mannequin figures, dressed as a Roman philosopher and a soldier, race across the top of the scene. It's possible that de Chirico tried to evoke the rise of Italian Fascism after World War I as analogous to the apocalypse in the Christian Book of Revelation, which begins with the entry of black, red, white, and ashen horses.
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John Atherton — The Black Horse
Jean Hugo — The Flight (Beginning of the End of the World)
American 19th Century — The Mounted Acrobats
Albrecht Dürer — The Little Horse
Master of Marradi — The Rape of Lucretia
Hans Vredeman de Vries — Palace Gardens with Poor Lazarus in
Marco Dente|Antonio Salamanca — Speculum Romanae Magnificent
Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610–1664) — Views of the Vill
John Atherton — Rocks and Weeds
Pinturicchio — Rape of Europa
Antonio Lafreri|Anonymous — Statues of the Dioscuri at the Q
Albrecht Dürer — The Great Horse
