The horse appears throughout several world religions, myths, and folktales, as has recently been explored in an exhibition at the State Museum of the History of Religion in Petersburg.
The exhibition “From Pegasus to Al-Buraq, the Horse in Religions and Myths” featured more than 150 exhibits, including rare artwork and a sketch of the unfinished “Knights of the Day of Resurrection” fresco, according to the Russian “TASS” news agency on October 6. It was made by renowned Russian plastic artist Viktor Vasnetsov.
“We wanted to exhibit an art project that indicates that our civilisation is a joint road for man and the horse,” said gallery director Anna Mutina. The shown horse images are a reflection of how various cultures have seen these animals from antiquity. Buddhist artwork, inscriptions, Greek coinage, and paintings are all displayed here. Western Europe is where the graphics are from.
For instance, there are the Shamael Tartar paintings, the lucky Chinese folk pictures, and the illustrations by Bernard Piccard and Antonio Tempest for Ovidius’ “Metamorphoses.”
The “Kosugai Museum,” the Mongolian musical instrument “Morin Hoor,” and the Okaz of the Thieves Syndicate in Mali, Africa, brought a Japanese sword to the exhibition for the first time. Younger visitors can play a game of horses while viewing the tree of a Mongolian monk.
Author: TASS.
Taking the Pegasus to Al-Buraq. Opening of a world-wide exhibition in Petersburg on the representation of horses
About Author
