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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 4513233" data-attributes="member: 77019">Yes that's rather startling isn't it?  One of the many ways European Martial Arts have been kind of hiding in plain sight ... it's very strange to me that in being very interested in both Durer and everything to do with swords I didn't find out he was an accomplished longsword fighter until I was 40 years old....Its very hard to find good scans of his work online and I'm really not sure why, you can't even find high -res scans of most of those images, the Galloglass one for example the best I could find in several years was that small fuzzy image I posted.  I also have bought four expensive Durer art books all of which claim to be 'complete' Durer collections and none of those pictures are in them, though I'm still glad to have them.  He was amazingly prolific but seems to be rather badly categoriezed and it's difficult to access his work.Yes Dore is fantastic, of a later period but the same aesthetic of any Gamer IMO.  To me this one of Don Quixote perfectly sums up my ideal DnD night:<img src="http://livingromcom.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/12/09/gustave_dore_don_quixote_001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />(speaking of which Cervantes had a rather amazing D&Dish life full of adventure and mishap, read up on him some day)Many of Dores contemporaries in the 19th Century were part of the so-called "Orientalist Movement" which also  dovetails very well with RPGs IMO due to their attention to technical detail (like weapons and armor which are usually done very accurately) combined with an exhuberant use of color and an almost desperate yearning to fleee the gray world of their Victorian culture and plunge into the exotic vistas and what they thought of as the untamed passions of foreign lands ...Their repression lead to inspiration.  This is one by Ludwig Deutsch is one of my favorites:<img src="http://www.deanesmay.com/files/deanesmay-The_Palace_Guard.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I wrote another little blog about Orientalist art and RPGs here:<a href="http://www.codexmartialis.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15" target="_blank">codexmartialis.com • View topic - Orientalist paintings</a>G.</blockquote>

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