PLEASE: Feel free to make an offer ! ! !
“IT JUST DOESN’T “GET” ANY
BETTER THAN THIS!!
Great gift for the horse
lover in your family, and don’t forget yourself…..
This is a really great book and so hard to find.
UP FOR AUCTION:
LEONARDO'S HORSE - 2001 BY JEAN FRITS
PAGES ARE NOT NUMBERED 25 YEARS OLD – IT’S IN “MINT” CONDITION
There’s a personal note written in the front blank page:
TO: LESLEY FROM: MARIE CHRISTMAS 2001
Anyone
who watched the young Leonardo wander the countryside around his home in Vinci might
have guessed that he would be an artist.
He stopped to examine everything.
He looked at the landscape as if he were memorizing it. So it was no surprise when his father took
him as a young teenager to Florence to study art.
People noticed that Leonardo was
different. He dressed differently. He wrote differently. Backwards.
From the right side of the paper to the left. A person would have to use a mirror to read his
writing.
And he wouldn’t eat meat. He liked animals too much to eat anything
that had once been alive. He couldn’t
stand the sight of caged birds. If he
saw a man selling, he would buy them all.
Then he would open the cages and watch the birds fly away. How did they do it. All his life Leonardo tried to discover their
secret of flying so he could make a flying machine for himself.
For a man who liked to ask questions,
Leonardo da Vinci was born at the right time-April 15,1452. Everybody was asking questions then. The age was called “The
Renaissance,” a time of rebirth when people who had forgotten how to be
curious became curious again.
The Duke of Milan wanted to honor his father
with a bronze horse in front of his Palace.
Leonardo was 30 years old now, handsome with curly
blonde hair. The Duke gave him the job
of working on the horse, but at same time he was expected to take charge of
entertainment in the palace.
On April 23, 1490, Leonardo wrote in his
notebook: “I
resumed work on the horse.” The
hardest part would be the casting. He
collected 58,000 pounds of metal – tin and copper – which would be heated until
it was fluid. This would be turned into
Bronze and used to cast the horse.
In November 1495, he had completed the clay model
– 24 feet high.
But Leonardo had been commissioned to cover
the wall of a Convent with a picture of Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper.
Later in 1498, there were rumors that the French were preparing to invade Milan, and the Duke wanted to be ready. There was all the medal Leonardo had collected. Just what the Duke needed. So he sent it off to be made into cannon.
Well, this is war, Leonardo reasoned. What else could they do?
Leonardo went back to painting and inventing but he never forgot his horse.
On May 2, 1519, Leonardo da Vinci died. It was said that even on his deathbed, Leonardo wept for his horse.
Leonardo has been remembered for hundreds of years, especially for his paintings Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But not for his HORSE!
That story was almost forgotten until 1977,
when it was told in a Magazine. And the right
man read it. His name was Charles Dent. When he learned that Leonardo died still
grieving for his horse, Charlie couldn’t stand it.
“Let’s give Leonardo
his horse,” he said. It would be
a gift from the American people to the people of Italy.
By 1993 the 8 foot plaster model of the clay
horse was completed and ready to be cast into a 24 foot bronze horse.
Charlie would not be alive when the horse
arrived in Milan. On December 13,
Charlie’s family and friends gathered around his bedside and promised him that
the horse would be finished. On Christmas
morning 1994, Charlie died.
On September 10, 1999 exactly 500 years to the day since the French invaded Milan and destroyed Leonardo’s horse.
At last, Leonardo’s Horse was home.
This is sooooo worth whatever you end up paying for this treasure….
If more than one item is
purchased I will do combined shipping.
BE SURE TO “VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS” BECAUSE I have lots of fabulous old books:
VINTAGE: OFFICIAL HORSE SHOW BLUE BOOK 1939
VINTAGE: Who in Horsedom) VOL 1 1948, 2 1949, VOL 3 1950, VOL 4 1951, VOL 5 1953, VOL 6-1954, VOL 7 1955, Vol 8 1956, Vol 10 1958, AND VOL 11 1959,
VINTAGE: (3) FAMOUS SADDLE HORSES BY SUSANNE (an old one) AND volumes 2 & 3 of NUMBER 128 A LIMITED EDITION And #31 Limited Edition by ASHA Museum
VINTAGE: LEONARDO'S HORSE
VINTAGE: GREATEST HORSE STORIES 1935
VINTAGE: GROOMING HORSES BY: R. W. COLLINS 1959
VINTAGE: HORSES ROUND THE WORLD 1955
VINTAGE: LIFE MAGAZINE OCT 1954 WING COMMANDER TRIBUTE
VINTAGE: THE
LONGVIEW WE REMEMBER, 1990
VINTAGE: HORSE WORLD OF THE BLUEGRASS - 1980
VINTAGE: Portraitures of Horses by legendary, George Ford Morris-1952
VINTAGE: Horsemen’s Exchange from 1940's
ANTIQUE: : RIDER & DRIVER Magazines from the late 1800’s
VINTAGE: Heads Up Heels Down, C.W. Anderson 1944
VINTAGE: Lithograph of the Legendary Man O’War by George Ford Morris
done in: 1944
I hope to list a bunch of Official
Horse Show Blue Books from the 1930's and 40's.
There is no reserve and if you win
it, “YOU WON’T “YOU WON’T BE SORRY”
Thanks for Looking – Happy Bidding
and Winning.