# Horse and Rider [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIZIANO Vecellio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk on blue paper, 274 x 262 mm ## Commentary Horse and Rider c. 1537 Black chalk on blue paper, 274 x 262 mm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford This drawing is a study for the Battle of Spoleto, painted for the Palazzo Ducale in Venice in 1538. It formed part of a larger narrative cycle running round three walls of the Hall of the Greater Council. Unfortunately, all paintings in the Hall were destroyed in 1577 in the second terrible fire of the decade. ## Related artworks - [A Knight of Malta]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle \(detail\)]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()