12-29-2017, 05:57 PM
(12-29-2017, 03:52 PM)Feinman Wrote:(12-29-2017, 01:28 PM)Clavdivs Wrote: Once again a very faithful rendering of the original -- a project that deserves close attention.
Thanks! Of course, until we find some reaonable remains, or they get dug up out of the museum storeroom somewhere, all I can claim to be constructing is a simulacrum of the armour depicted. Still, if it can be done, it can push the probability of the authenticity envelope a bit. It's not going to stop me from prancing around in it though!
I think you are being slightly harsh -- you can claim to be constructing a facsimile of the conception of a spolas by a contemporary artist, and a fine one at that -- as much evidence as the eminent L. Wilson had for her reconstructions of the toga.
Incidentally, what do you make of the seemingly half-depicted pattern of rectangles on the left-side panel of the spolas? A blunder by the painter, perhaps, as they are very lightly drawn and not continued?
Patrick J. Gray
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.