10-29-2014, 03:56 PM
Hi all.
It is interesting how many complicate explanations have to be made to explain something easy to explain if we considere other posibilities.
By the way I´m mediterranean, I have seen many Roman sculptures, and my point of wiew as also sculptor is that claiming that the sculptures were "heroical" or invented, means very little knowlege of how difficult is to make a marble sculpture, and how much planing have to be made to keep the diferent shapes. If you want to make a sleeve, you have to do it in purpose. For any artist who is looking just for an "heroic" approach, will be much easier to make a proper musculata than a chainmail that looks like musculata with sleeves...that does not exist.
Also is difficult to understand how, sculptors from different regions (Germany, Turkey, Spain, Britain), in different times show the same kind of armour, in an era with very limited comunications, in diferent positions, just because they try to make something "heroic".
[attachment=11069]Roman_statue_of_Mars.JPG[/attachment]
[attachment=11070]tomb_sulpicius_celsus_standards_cm1.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=11072]P4240288_2014-10-29.JPG[/attachment]
All of them look as really weird "chainmails"...
Glues are a very mediterranean solution used in many many artworks. In the other hand you will see very little quilting on ancient mediterranean cultures.
But if we dislike to see them, we can hide the sculptures. Just can be metal. Lorica Linteam never existed...
It is interesting how many complicate explanations have to be made to explain something easy to explain if we considere other posibilities.
By the way I´m mediterranean, I have seen many Roman sculptures, and my point of wiew as also sculptor is that claiming that the sculptures were "heroical" or invented, means very little knowlege of how difficult is to make a marble sculpture, and how much planing have to be made to keep the diferent shapes. If you want to make a sleeve, you have to do it in purpose. For any artist who is looking just for an "heroic" approach, will be much easier to make a proper musculata than a chainmail that looks like musculata with sleeves...that does not exist.
Also is difficult to understand how, sculptors from different regions (Germany, Turkey, Spain, Britain), in different times show the same kind of armour, in an era with very limited comunications, in diferent positions, just because they try to make something "heroic".
[attachment=11069]Roman_statue_of_Mars.JPG[/attachment]
[attachment=11070]tomb_sulpicius_celsus_standards_cm1.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=11072]P4240288_2014-10-29.JPG[/attachment]
All of them look as really weird "chainmails"...
Glues are a very mediterranean solution used in many many artworks. In the other hand you will see very little quilting on ancient mediterranean cultures.
But if we dislike to see them, we can hide the sculptures. Just can be metal. Lorica Linteam never existed...
