Horses and Tack in Renaissance Florence

Benezzo Gozzoli, Ascension of the Magi, the Middle King, 1459-1460. Fresco at the Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence.	Benezzo Gozzoli, Ascension of the Magi, the Middle King, 1459-1460. Fresco at the Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence.
Benezzo Gozzoli, Ascension of the Magi, the Old King, 1459-1460. Fresco at the Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence. The very kind Martin Donach has pointed out to me via email that the horse in this image is actually a mule, as evidenced by its ears. Thanks, Martin!	Benezzo Gozzoli, Ascension of the Magi, the Young King, 1459-1460. Fresco at the Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Magi, 1486-90. A fresco at the Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.	Sandro Botticelli, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti detail, c. 1483. Tempera on panel, now at the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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