10-22-2009, 06:50 AM
I had yesterday an interesting discussion with one of our group members that is pretty expert also of the Renaissance period.
He told me some interesting things:
- During the renaissance (about XVII century) it became very popular to rebuild roman armour in order to wear them during parades or just to show them to visitors and hosts. More often by copying statues of course. It was very popular also in eastern european regions.
- Brass was commonly used in place of bronze to make those artefacts.
- The air-holes on the back we commonly introduced in the XVII century on the armours of that period and are unknown (to my friend and to me) referred to more ancient times. So who built that fake referred to some construction elements of that period. I don’t remember any roman finding (either true armours or statues) with those hole between shoulders. So what I told in my previous post it could be a proof of genuinity could be used on the opposite way as proof of non roman authenticity.
He told me some interesting things:
- During the renaissance (about XVII century) it became very popular to rebuild roman armour in order to wear them during parades or just to show them to visitors and hosts. More often by copying statues of course. It was very popular also in eastern european regions.
- Brass was commonly used in place of bronze to make those artefacts.
- The air-holes on the back we commonly introduced in the XVII century on the armours of that period and are unknown (to my friend and to me) referred to more ancient times. So who built that fake referred to some construction elements of that period. I don’t remember any roman finding (either true armours or statues) with those hole between shoulders. So what I told in my previous post it could be a proof of genuinity could be used on the opposite way as proof of non roman authenticity.
