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An artistic interpretation of the Visigoths during the Islamic invasion of Spain early in the 8th century. One is a nobleman, who acts as heavy cavalry with sword, shield and spear, the other is a commoner (probably a slave class if I remember correctly) who serves as basic infantry and/or archer. The nobleman's arms and armor is an interesting mix of Roman, Frankish and Byzantine styles.This illustration was done for Medieval Warfare Magazine, a Dutch publication. You can check it out and subscribe here >> [link]
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Cool. Nice work on the arms. armour, and faces.
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For a commoner he seems well equipped. Anyway nice work.
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Visigothic laws were commanding nobles to equip their servents even if slaves as good as they could and with armour if possible.So if Noblman was rich he was obliged to equip even slave well.
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Very nice! One thing though...chainmail armor wasΒ really quite expensive so that infantry guy might not be a slave?
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He is a slave.If such a slave was well equiped was rather a metter of his lord and how rich he was-but generaly Visigothic kingdom laws demanded that noblemans should equip their slaves into combat well.
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Very well done altough i dont think you had a clear slave class in Visigoth society. It was more proto feudal. You had however some kind of slavery or serfs but I dont think they were in military. Altough considering is medieval age when warfare came everyone trully was invoked to war. Is good to finaly see someone drawn how they actualy were instead of anachronistic or fantastical image.
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There were clear slave class in Visigoth society as well as slaves in Visigothic military,especially at the down of Visigothic kingdom.
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I have absolutely fallen in love with your beautiful and depictions of medieval warfare. I am looking to commission some concept art for the fantasy novel I am getting ready to publish. The job would be character drawings with a focus on accurate arms and armor, and further down the line might also include artwork for a book trailer or even cover art for the book itself. The manuscript is getting ready for editing, but you can read the prologue at [link] if you want. If you are interested in the project or just want a free eBook please contact me at ljodnster@gmail.com.
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I love your gallery and those historics are by far what I love the most ! Great ! Hope to see sarmatian/parthian one day
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the way you draw chainmail is absolutely awesome!! how do you paint it??
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Outstanding work; the cavalryman does remind me of the Digenes Akritas.
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what did you use as a source for the info on the Gear for your historical drawings?
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IΒ΄m glad to see your plates in Ancient Warfare too.
Albertomv
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I'm just curious-are you the same Alberto I sometimes encounter on Roman army talk or at osprey forum?
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Yes I am.
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Sorry about the long long delay in answering you
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I'm impressed by the similarities whith the Byzantine army of the same era...The cavalryman is an accurate representation of the byzantine "ΞΞΊΟΞ―ΟΞ±Ο" a medium-heavy cavarlyman (mostly lower and military aristocracy of the borders). On the other hand the infantryman is a similar representation of the "΀΢άκονΡΟ" light-medium infantry with multiple roles on the field of battle... Anyway exelent work and very accurate.
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The visigoths tried to perpetuate the roman empire in the Iberian Peninsula. They maintaned the provincial administration and the used a lot of material, equipment and weapons like the ones of the late roman armies. The byzantine army of that time was equipped similarly.
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Awesome. But I'd doubt that a simple commoner, leave alone a slave, would posess mail and a sword.
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From the optical point, and because they are spanish, they reminds me to Don Quijote and Sancho Pansa.
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Cool! I really like this one. Armor looks great. Especially the spangenhelm! The whole thing reminds me a bit of the stuff made by Angus McBride. (Which is a compliment by the way!
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That's quite a compliment, thx. Angus McBride is one of my favorite historical artist. May he rest in peace.
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Your stuff you do for that mag is great! Do you have to do a lot of research about costumes and equipment or do you get all the direction from the magazine people?
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I do some of my own research but most of it is done by the historians that write for the magazine.
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I envy you, it must be great to work on these, you learn about history and paint, like killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
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Its kinda cool.
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Their expressions make me not want to know what they are looking at...
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I love your historical pics. I am a fanatic about history.
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Great pic and details.
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