EditorialGerman mercenaries (Landsknechte), 1510-1550. They show a fantastic variety of colour and form in their quilted, slashed doublets, stockings, plumes, garters and leather shoes. From handcoloured woodcuts by artists in Mainz. Chromolithograph from Hefne...
EditorialTwo Swiss knights in battle garb holding a heraldic shield with image of a fish, halberd and lance, 1510-1550. They wear quilted doublets, breeches, stockings, codpiece and garters. From a stained glass in Nilkheim bei Aschaffenburg. Chromolithograph f...
EditorialGerman mercenaries (Landsknechte), 1510-1550. They show a fantastic variety of colour and form in their quilted, slashed doublets, stockings, plumes, garters and leather shoes. From handcoloured woodcuts by artists in Mainz. Chromolithograph from Hefne...
EditorialSwordfight by fencers with two-handed swords, 16th century. They wear slashed doublets over slashed culottes and stockings and codpieces. From Joachim Meyer's "Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing," 1561. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's ...
EditorialFour tournament judges, juges diseurs, and the king of arms, roi d'armes, 15th century. The judges wear hats or hoods, doublets, stockings and cracows (pointed shoes). The king of arms wears a chlamys with a parchment painting of the coats of arms of t...