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"He who is brave is free."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Technique: Watercolors on paper
Size: A4
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The word pinto is Spanish for "painted", "dappled", or "spotted".
While pinto coloration has yet to be identified as a wild type by DNA studies or seen in cave art antedating horse domestication, images from pottery and other art of ancient antiquity show horses with flashy, spotted patterns, indicating that they may have been desirable traits and selectively bred for. Images of spotted horses appear in the art of Ancient Egypt, and archaeologists have found evidence of horses with spotted coat patterns on the Russian steppes before the rise of the Roman Empire.
Later, spotted horses were among those brought to the Americas by the conquistadors.
By the 17th century in Europe, spotted horses were quite fashionable, though when the fad ended, large numbers of newly unsellable horses were shipped to the Americas, some of which were sold, while others were simply turned loose to run wild. The color became popular, particularly among Native Americans, and was specifically bred for in the United States, which now has the greatest number of pinto horses in the world.
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A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.
Tesio
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