Handgonners from spanish tapestry

fernando · 31st March 2011, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matchlock

...those martial topics were transferred to pictorial tapestries - posters and advertising pillars had not yet been invented!

Amazing remark

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The article from where i took some data to support my post, quotes:
... Dom Afonso V couldn't take with him any image reporters. There was no direct coverings or live coments made by journalists in front of TV cameras;
reason why he ordered the tapestries

Matchlock · 31st March 2011, 09:53 PM

Exactly, and so did other Late Gothic and Early Renaissance warlords.

These tapestries were nothing but woven war reports.

Best,
Michl

Spiridonov · 3rd April 2011, 08:38 PM

A think that "A" possibly is not lever (clef) and is not a part of this hangonne. May be it something on the body of the man. In this case details "B" and "C" may be just a one simple holder for a tinder which is fixed on a stock by nail. It looks like sistem of Giorgi Martini. I think that hangonner had to push on side "B" by thumb to turn it around the nail. In all case we don't know exactly

p/s
I have made mistake. It is not spanish tapestry but portuguese tapestry

3rd April 2011, 08:38 PM	#3
Spiridonov Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Russia, Leningrad Posts: 355	A think that "A" possibly is not lever (clef) and is not a part of this hangonne. May be it something on the body of the man. In this case details "B" and "C" may be just a one simple holder for a tinder which is fixed on a stock by nail. It looks like sistem of Giorgi Martini. I think that hangonner had to push on side "B" by thumb to turn it around the nail. In all case we don't know exactly p/s I have made mistake. It is not spanish tapestry but portuguese tapestry Attached Images Last edited by Spiridonov; 4th April 2011 at 09:19 AM.

31st March 2011, 09:53 PM	#2
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Exactly, and so did other Late Gothic and Early Renaissance warlords. These tapestries were nothing but woven war reports. Best, Michl