05-14-2012, 02:43 PM
He was the first ancient illustrator I knew by name.
Stefan (Literary references to the discussed topics are always appreciated.)
Peter Connolly
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05-14-2012, 02:43 PM
He was the first ancient illustrator I knew by name.
Stefan (Literary references to the discussed topics are always appreciated.)
05-14-2012, 05:33 PM
Quote:Tuesday May 15th, 1.30pm at Peterborough Crematorium.That's tomorrow. Anyone going?
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
05-16-2012, 10:02 PM
Quote:I went. The crematorium was filled with family, friends and colleagues; I don't think that many more could have got in. Members of the Ermine Street Guard acted as pall-bearers and Chris Haines, centurion of the Guard, delivered the eulogy. It was an altogether fitting farewell to a well-liked and highly-respected man.mcbishop post=312186 Wrote:Tuesday May 15th, 1.30pm at Peterborough Crematorium.That's tomorrow. Anyone going?
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, - Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. (The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
05-17-2012, 01:54 AM
Even today, I try to read any ilustrated History book in the "under 16" section of the libraries hoping to find good ones...they may not be the most prestigious History books, but a good work can inspire a great number of people.
I remember well how I enjoyed reading some of his books for the first time, seeing how real made the seem the past. Real tools, real weapons, real houses...very different from some fancy drawings or XIX century archive images seen everywhere too many times. Probably I started being critical with the drawings (and their sources) thanks to him
-This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how
sheep´s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes. Iagoba Ferreira Benito, member of Cohors Prima Gallica and current Medieval Martial Arts teacher of Comilitium Sacrae Ensis, fencing club.
05-17-2012, 03:00 AM
Osprey put this blog post up today: Peter Connolly, Artist and Scholar. Here, here.
05-29-2012, 11:35 PM
Just saw this post, and it's very sad news indeed. A great artist and scholar. Commiserations to his family and friends.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!
06-07-2012, 12:31 AM
To me, Peter was the Force, pulling me into our most glorious hobby. My first book at the age of 12 I think ( now 38 years ago) was The greek Army, in Dutch of course, published 1978. It was enchanting, showing me perspectives I could never have gotten from any other written source. Peter was beyond fabulous at that. I just HAD to get me a 5th Cty BC Corinthian helmet...The real problem was the how. Styrofoam finally provided the rough shape and strips of cardboard glued on with expanding glue brought me a helmet as tough as could be. Limited painting skills made it come to life and the result -in brass- is worn by Greek re-enactors around the world today. so, for what it was worth, it brought some good to the world. Naturally the remainder of the hoplite equipment followed rapidly. Being supernatural back then, I decided to do the 10 Mile run from Amsterdam to Zaandam, which I managed in a clean 1.27 hrs. Of note is the fact that I had an add on my shield for a local Greek restaurant awhich earned me a dinner for 4.
Inevitably his The Roman Army had a similar yet greater effect on me,leading to the founding of Gemina, to day the eldest living history group in the Netherlands and recenlt using his artwork of the houses at Pompeii as a guideline to the reconstruction of a Roman Domus. So, in a sense, it all his fault really. I had the privilege of meeting him many times, my life feels enriched in many ways and he will continue to be an inspiration to me. So here's to you Peter, may the Gods lighten your path wherever it may lead you.
Paul Karremans
Chairman and founding member Member in the Order of Orange-Nassau, awarded for services to Roman Living History in the Netherlands <a class="postlink" href="http://www.gemina.nl">http://www.gemina.nl est.1987
06-17-2012, 08:05 PM
Obituary here: http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/community...-1-3941793.
06-18-2012, 10:45 AM
Quote:Obituary here: http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/community...-1-3941793.Also a good one (whole page) by Simon James, using some of the material deployed by Chris Haines in his eulogy (along with PC's cavalry charge painting), in The Times on Saturday (16th June 2012, p.83). It is probably online behind the Murdoch paywall, but since that is somewhere I will not venture on principle, I cannot vouch for the truth of that assertion and can only report the existence of the dead-tree version. Mike Bishop
06-18-2012, 01:43 PM
Quote:Also a good one (whole page) by Simon James, using some of the material deployed by Chris Haines in his eulogy (along with PC's cavalry charge painting), in The Times on Saturday (16th June 2012, p.83).Pulled this off the Infoweb server: Peter Connolly - Author and illustrator of popular history books especially about the military life and times of the Greco-Roman world (Times, The (London, England) - Saturday, June 16, 2012) Quote:Peter Connolly was an author, an illustrator, an historian and an experimental archaeologist. He was most widely known for meticulously researched, full-colour popular history books which were translated into many languages. These were written and illustrated in his highly characteristic style, packed with immensely detailed paintings (normally gouaches) of original artefacts and reconstructions of life and action.
06-19-2012, 01:41 PM
Quote: . . . using some of the material deployed by Chris Haines in his eulogy . . .Chris Haines' eulogy can be found here: http://erminestreetguard.co.uk/Peter%20C...Eulogy.htm
Michael King Macdona
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