01-27-2008, 01:15 AM
This contemporary picture of a Late Roman soldier was new to me- from the Ambrosian Iliad from the fifth century, and depicting scenes from the Iliad- this one being Nestor and Patroclus. I really like the detail on the central soldier.
More here with higher resolution pictures http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... sian_Iliad
More here with higher resolution pictures http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... sian_Iliad