Signo wrote:The only thing for sure is that those artists were very good at detailing things and at the same time being creative and drawing in a very peculiar way. I mean, it's very hard to tell where the depiction of reality stops and where fantasy begin. It's a bit like modern movies, you can't say for sure which of the things you see are real or computer effects. :)
How can you draw a line? And secondly: how restrict was this fashion
in time and space that left us almost only pictorial evidence and just
few extant pieces? Is there any chance that this is more an artistic fashion than a real one?
Signo,
I am quite worried about this as well. As you say, it is impossible
to really tell where the reality ends and the fantasy begins. Just
for starts, Konrad Laib painted the Graz crucifixion in 1457. The
style of armor he was depicting had been out of fashion for almost
a generation. Now, figure in the part where he is depicting
ancient Romans, and we can see how the resulting art can get a little
unreliable.
It may well be the case that the helmet in question never really
existed at all.
What we are trying to do may be like trying to reconstruct the
costume of the late 1960s from poster for "Yellow Submarine".
Mac
As Mac said, so little is known about this style of armour that anything you do will help us understand it better. This will be really cool and I will be very interested in how it turns out. All I have played around with, in terms of Kastenbrust armour, is make a couple of gauntlets. This will be much more interesting.