Leather Cuirass

[MeinPanzer]

Ruben, paul is right. Why would the artist be so inconsistant? Not all cuirasses flared at the bottom, some were lined with folded brass/bronze edging as were the neck and arm holes. That sculpture shouldn't even be considered as a piece of evidence because it's so weak in presenting anything even remotely clearly.

Not all cuirasses flared at the bottom, but this artist was clearly trying to depict a cuirass that did. The two options are that the sculptor was an idiot who had no idea what a cuirass was or that he intended it to be that way. When someone would spend weeks and weeks working on a piece like this, I would assume that they knew what they were doing.

The problem is not with the sculpture, it is with our understanding of it. The painting is very clear, we just have insufficient information on this piece and why they reproduced it twice with different colours. I wish I could get a hold of a catalogue from the exhibit or something which explained why.

Heck, I hope no-one 2000 years from now bases our respective cultures on what they find in ART. They'll never know what we were about or how we acted, dressed and lived.

Let it go guys.

Are you actually suggesting that information on how the ancients acted, dressed, and lived cannot be gleaned from art? Comparing it to art today is not apt, as ancient art was created with much different goals and standards in mind than most modern artists. As with everything, it must be examined with an awareness of the context in which it was found and contemporary art.