05-15-2007, 01:55 AM
Quote:It doesn't necessarily follow that the cheek pieces must have been painted with the same paint as the wider wall to be white. If the effect was to be metallic that may have involved other pigments to differentiate it from the corslet, which may decay differently over time.
Obviously I'm not an expert on this, but I highly doubt that. I don't think such a drastic variance in discolouration is possible. The colours overall are still very vibrant in the Lyson and Kallikles paintings, so I'm going to apply Occam's Razor and say that the cuirasses are most likely not faded.
Actually, Nick Sekunda has suggested that the L&K cuirasses are bronze, because they are painted in the exact same manner as the shield between them and a number of other details which are most likely bronze.
Quote:You have no way of being so definitive that off-white/yellowish is bronze, either. Is the opposite helm pure copper?
Unless the hilt, chape, and grip of those two swords are painted, the yellowish colour represents bronze. That other helmet is red. If anything, the greaves appear to be copper-coloured.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
