Five horses raced through London riderless, a white horse was bleeding. The pictures that are circulating around the world are astonishingly reminiscent of the works of a Bavarian historical painter.
Richardlee5412 thinks it’s “weird”. He writes online that “a few generations ago this story would not have even found its way into the table conversations of the witnesses concerned – and today it is news worldwide.” There’s something to that, but still: he’s wrong. Horses have been part of cultural and visual history for thousands of years.