About ethnographic arms

[Dom]

Hi every body

I found this painting of a young Greek (19th century) which shows clearly how and with what he was armed, it's amazing
it's hard to believe the amount of weapons of all sorts on him,
but it clearly recognizes that we collect those daggers, not less than two in addition to a pair of pistols



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Dom

[Queequeg]

That young man was brought up well!

[CharlesS]

Don't get too carried away with some of the Orientalist art of the 19th century. Many of the artists, most notably Gerome and Deutsch, often overly embellished the "weapons load" on their subjects. Both illustrated by memory, and were also keen to show of examples off their own collections by fancifully displaying them on the subjects in their art.

Still, they look awesome and are hard to resist, especially for us!!

[mahratt]

Historically precisely the Russian artist Vereschagin drew inhabitants of India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. If it is interesting, I can lay out photos of works


1) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0%D0%B7%29.jpg

2) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0%B5%D1%86.jpg

3) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...1%80%D0%B5.jpg

4) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...D%D0%B0%29.jpg

If references it is bad, I can put after a photo

[Lew]

Here is a link you may find interesting.

http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/gerome.html

[CharlesS]

What a great site Lew. Thanks for sharing that.

You might also enjoy a look at Ludwig Deutsch's work on that site. He loved almost fantasy images of imposing, intimidating palace guards, and they are always loaded with weapons...overloaded even...but great pieces(weapons) and each piece is very recognizable as to what it is and its origin.

[Martin Lubojacky]

+ some (of relatively known) photos (old Damascus and Bisharin)

[mahratt]

[Rick]

I love this thread !

Keep it up guys !

[mahratt]

[libra]

Here are some photos that you can see how many arms they were wearing in Greece
The weight whoever it reached the 10 with 15 kilos!
Ηeavily but very beautifully

[Nathaniel]

Cool thread! Thanks Dom! What beautiful portraits.

Here are some more from SEA

[Nathaniel]

Originally Posted by mahratt

Historically precisely the Russian artist Vereschagin drew inhabitants of India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. If it is interesting, I can lay out photos of works


1) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0%D0%B7%29.jpg

2) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0%B5%D1%86.jpg

3) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...1%80%D0%B5.jpg

4) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...D%D0%B0%29.jpg

If references it is bad, I can put after a photo

Beautiful depictions of an age gone past....

[mahratt]

[Nathaniel]

Amazing paintings...

I like the these couple done by Ludwig Deutsch

[Marc]

Funny, a hi-res version of the last Palace Guard portrait (Deustch's) is actually my computer's Desktop Wallpaper...

[asomotif]

Atjeh warrior, a well known picture.
Not as overloaded as the Deutsch paintings.
But look at the size of the blunderbuss.

[mahratt]