Posts: 238 Location: Lyons, France
Fri 28 Jan, 2011 8:02 pm
The drawing seems to show a hollow-ground blade... People more knowledgeable than me (many on this forum! :p ) might correct me, but hollow-ground blades are indeed very Renaissance, and I don't think any is known that comes even close to 1176...
As to the helm and
shield, I gather from the text they are attributed to the same doge, but there too the decorations on both pieces, and the style of the helm (a
burgonet, quite clearly) are most definitely Renaissance and not 12th century.
Quite certainly these are regalia created in the Renaissance, I'd say 16th century, and attributed to a 12th century doge. I'd be curious to know who did the attribution and why.