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24th May 2022, 05:00 PM
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Congrats Dirk!
You might try outside pictures. In the shade if the sun is super bright. I'll be happy to edit your pics for you also. Can someone educate us on the history of "the green man"? |
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24th May 2022, 08:47 PM
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The Green Man is a human face, or sometimes a full figure with leaves for hair and often wrapped in vines and foliage. It's very common in church carvings from the middle ages and a Victorian era author used it as the basis for a theory of hidden pagan cults hiding within the medieval church. The truth is we have no idea what it symbolized to people of that time.
Robert |
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25th May 2022, 03:25 AM
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By sheer coincidence I was watching this youtube clip and noticed a rapier with an almost identical hilt in the display case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDVE06x_A0 |
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25th May 2022, 08:34 AM
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yes it is the same type of rapier and of the same period in the Metropolitan Museum.
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