05-03-2013, 01:15 AM
Such helmets probably did exist long after they had been discarded by the military, instead being used for festivities, parades, theatre preformances and the like (see for instance the Apulian-Corinthian parade helmet from Autun, 1st century CE, that certainly had never seen a battlefield) .
In the 1st century CE, the Apulian-Corinthian / Etruro-Corinthian / pseudo-Corinthian helmet was very popular in Pompeian mural painting:
[attachment=7094]marsvenus.jpg[/attachment]
Mars playing hanky-panky with Venus.
[attachment=7095]soldier.jpg[/attachment]
Soldier stoically undergoing surgery.
Perhaps, like the gypsum casts seen in 19th century art schools, any artist had some models of ancient arms and armour for use in military scenes
In the 1st century CE, the Apulian-Corinthian / Etruro-Corinthian / pseudo-Corinthian helmet was very popular in Pompeian mural painting:
[attachment=7094]marsvenus.jpg[/attachment]
Mars playing hanky-panky with Venus.
[attachment=7095]soldier.jpg[/attachment]
Soldier stoically undergoing surgery.
Perhaps, like the gypsum casts seen in 19th century art schools, any artist had some models of ancient arms and armour for use in military scenes
