Classwork: Armor!

[labricoleuse]

The focus of my graduate seminar has shifted now from masks to armor, and today I gave the first lecture on the subject. I pulled some pieces of armor from our stock to show the students examples of what sorts of things they should be considering for potential projects. They are required to do one simple piece and one more complex piece. "Simple" projects might be a plain medieval helmet or set of greves, whereas "complex" might be an ornamented breastplate or set of articulated gauntlets.

I took some pictures of the stock armor and images i gave them to share with y'all.


These three are acceptable project examples.


Second view of same.


This breastplate is an example, clearly, of what not to do.

In the background are some renderings of "fantasy" examples: Victorian silhouettes rendered in armor for Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.

Comments

[lilithschilde.livejournal.com]

I love the bronze breastplate with the seven layer faulds! It's gorgeous! I don't know what that student was thinking, or if they even were. Wow.