04-24-2013, 04:00 AM
Hello Carlo
It looks like something I have already done for the second volume of Arms and Armour with Raffaele D'Amato. In which case is it based on the Ashburnam Pentateuch?
If so then I have painted the whole figure which I sadly cannot show until publication, hopefully next year. It might be the front cover so it could be seen if there is any advance publicity.
If it is based on that source, then according to D'Amato's interpretation which I have realised, then I would say your helmet is too much like a Spanish morion, and there was no feathered crest. However you may not agree with D'Amato's interpretation, as indeed you are entitled too. You would not be the only one who would disagree I am sure!
Then again I might have guessed the wrong source you have used entirely!
Remember though, that the Anglo-Saxon scholars which includes me too, do prefer to work from actual archaeological finds as well as the literary and iconographic sources, rather than purely the ancient iconography.
I really did like the architectural detail in your sketch of the Hunnic bodyguard. Original finds like that is something you do have an advantage over us Anglo-Saxons, as they must lie all around you.
It looks like something I have already done for the second volume of Arms and Armour with Raffaele D'Amato. In which case is it based on the Ashburnam Pentateuch?
If so then I have painted the whole figure which I sadly cannot show until publication, hopefully next year. It might be the front cover so it could be seen if there is any advance publicity.
If it is based on that source, then according to D'Amato's interpretation which I have realised, then I would say your helmet is too much like a Spanish morion, and there was no feathered crest. However you may not agree with D'Amato's interpretation, as indeed you are entitled too. You would not be the only one who would disagree I am sure!
Then again I might have guessed the wrong source you have used entirely!
Remember though, that the Anglo-Saxon scholars which includes me too, do prefer to work from actual archaeological finds as well as the literary and iconographic sources, rather than purely the ancient iconography.
I really did like the architectural detail in your sketch of the Hunnic bodyguard. Original finds like that is something you do have an advantage over us Anglo-Saxons, as they must lie all around you.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
