七匹马组 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	七匹马组
品名（英）	Group of Seven Horses
入馆年号	1933年，33.54.2
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)【1484 至 1545】【德国人】
创作年份	公元 1534
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 8-5/8 x 12-7/8 英寸 (21.8 x 32.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	1534年，Baldung在一片黑暗茂密的森林中创作了三幅野马木刻，这是他独有的一个主题，既没有先例，也没有先例。这些版画是如此独特，以至于在他50岁左右的时候，它们对他来说一定有着强烈的个人意义。尽管这些马和它们的姿势看起来并不完全真实，但它们的奇异性和强度令人着迷。这是三部作品中最不露骨的一部，但可以猜测，这两匹种马是在争夺一匹母马的所有权在古代和文艺复兴时期的马术纪念碑或肖像中，马被认为是一种高贵的生物，是被荣耀的统治者或领导者的合适坐骑，莱昂纳多·达·芬奇和丢勒都计划就马的理想比例发表论文。然而，自古以来，马——包括种马和母马——都被认为是非常好色的。此外，在日耳曼民间传说中，马与邪恶势力联系在一起，通常与巫术有关。这些木刻作品的更大主题，以及它们的暴力和被压抑的能量，是人类无法理解或控制的力量的力量，特别是肉体本能的压倒性力量。
介绍（英）	In 1534 Baldung made three woodcuts of wild horses in a dark and dense forest, a subject unique to him that had neither precedent nor following. The prints are so idiosyncratic that they must have had strong personal meaning for him, then in about his fiftieth year. Even though the horses and their poses do not look entirely real, they are fascinating in their strangeness and intensity. This is the least overtly sexual of the three works, but it may be guessed that the stallions are fighting for possession of a mare. In the equestrian monument or portrait, in both antiquity and the Renaissance, the horse was deemed a noble creature, a fitting mount for the ruler or leader being glorified, and both Leonardo da Vinci and Dürer made plans for treatises on the ideal proportions of the horse. Also since antiquity, however, horses--both stallions and mares--were equally reputed to be extraordinarily lustful. Further, in Germanic folklore the horse was associated with evil forces often having to do with witchcraft. The larger subject of these woodcuts, with their violence and pent-up energy, is the power of forces beyond man's understanding or control, specifically the overwhelming strength of the carnal instinct.