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Coloring the Fencing Master in the Getty Fiore’s Segno della Spada
Or, How Coloring Can Teach You More About Medieval Clothing As part of advancement in some swordplay schools, students take on progressively larger projects and skills assessments. One such student, Erin Fitzgerald, in preparation for an advanced rank chose an ambitious art project as one of her qualifying works. She decided to reproduce the Segno della …
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A fur primer for 14th and 15th century European clothing
I wrote an article on recognizing fur in period figural imagery that kind of ate my brain. I’ve been working on this topic for months. The more I read and reviewed imagery, the more rabbit holes I found myself going down, zero pun intended. But now finally it’s in a state where I feel comfortable sharing …
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