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Arek Przybylok
Location: Upper Silesia Joined: 16 Jan 2007
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Posted: Thu 01 Jul, 2010 1:48 am Post subject: Netherlands armour 15th Century |
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I am looking for originals full suits of armour from Netherlands from the second-half of the 15th Century, such as Memling was painting. I know a lot of armours from other European countries, but no like such.
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Ben van Koert
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Posted: Thu 01 Jul, 2010 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately not much extant armour from this period remains here, so full suits are especially out of the question. There are some effigies which have survived the iconoclasm, I believe there's one in breda if my memory serves me right.
When aiming for a low countries impression we'll have to base our impressions on artwork, unfortunately.
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James Arlen Gillaspie
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Location: upstate NY Joined: 10 Nov 2005
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Posted: Sat 03 Jul, 2010 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Yes, full suits are pretty much out, but parts do exist, and there are some very fine effigies, as well as the paintings; we used to call Memling 'the man who thought he was a camera'.
jamesarlen.com
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Hisham Gaballa
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Posted: Sun 04 Jul, 2010 7:47 am Post subject: |
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On the subject on Memling, I came across this rather nice armour close-up in a triptych by him.
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