01-12-2013, 07:07 PM
After a decade lusting after a gilded parade lamellar I finally achieved that ambition last year. The outfit is based upon the donor portrait of Prôtospatharios Iôannês from the Adrianople Gospels dated to 1007.
I was especially pleased by the way the selective golding on the shoulders turned out, although gold leafing the leather for the sleeves was a pain!
Picture taken by Graham Sumner at DEVA 2012.
BTW, while middle Byzantine art can be very accurate in its depiction of armour, late Byzantine art is overwhelmingly distorted and stylised. The disc cuirasses are actually misunderstood lamellar (which had fallen out of use with 1204) fused with the eastern "mirror armour" (char-aina) which was rapidly taking over in the C14th.
Timothy
I was especially pleased by the way the selective golding on the shoulders turned out, although gold leafing the leather for the sleeves was a pain!
Picture taken by Graham Sumner at DEVA 2012.
BTW, while middle Byzantine art can be very accurate in its depiction of armour, late Byzantine art is overwhelmingly distorted and stylised. The disc cuirasses are actually misunderstood lamellar (which had fallen out of use with 1204) fused with the eastern "mirror armour" (char-aina) which was rapidly taking over in the C14th.
Timothy
