12-14-2009, 12:04 AM
Quote:Like always it'd be nice to see the actuality: it might well be clearer. I'm not at all certain it's a shield but am equally uncertain it's an arm.
In fig 10 the rider's right shoulder is behind the helmet and is thus clearly rendered in profile - as seems the rest. The right arm is at the horses' neck and is "pulling" the animal's head onto its chest. One wouold imagine the reigns were there originally (painted on?) and that the left arm - if he is shorteneing the reigns to lower the head onto its chest - would be in a similar position. If the so called "shield" is the left shoulder, it is forward of the face. This would indicate he's rotated to the right some though, again, the pose looks firmly in profile. The angle would seem to take the "arm" up to near his left ear if the beginning of the curve is not the left shoulder.
The pose doesn't look firmly in profile to me, and I think a pose rotated somewhat to the right would fit well with the similar pose of his attendant, who is also tilted to the right.
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
