Right-handed and a sinister Sassanian

 Salvete Omnes,

long time ago - circa 2007-8AD, I drew, based on dr Patryk Skupiniewicz' research and guidance, some Parthian and Sassanian heavy armored cavalrymen/horsemen fro Karwansaray's Ancient Warfare issue.
I was browsing the net and came across this illustration

the image comes from Italian version of Focus - and the image was found on Pinterest

painted by Griorgio Albertini for dr Raffaele D'Amato's article for the above-mentioned Italian magazine publication. My horseman , drawn from the same source as the horseman of Alberini's, also can be found on Pinterest. 
Let us compare both in some detail 

so my Sassanian is right-handed, holding the 'Kushan' mace in his right hand, while the Italian version of my Saassanian is 'a sinister one' so to speak.
The placement of the sword  and bow case are in the right-handed position. 
Accrediting to the author's they replaced the helmet with the Emesa helmet mask with some changes with the collar.
Other than that I would say it is flattering to see one's artwork copied and/or interpreted, but it would be also nice to know they did this, especially since we have been in contact for many years now. 
alas, we all have our own fight to fight, don't we?
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and my old sketch, before dr Patryk Skupniewicz corrected the 'reconstruction.' Nota bene I am sure we, especially dr Patryk's own scholarly research,  would have done a different reconstruction nowadays, lots of have changed in the Sassanian research and interpretations since then.

It has been long time ago since I done any Persians in this context so this year I will have a surprise for you, God willing

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I will have to write another post about publishing my illustrations without my consent nor even without crediting me as the author in an e-book released in the Polish e-book market  - but this I will write in some another post. 

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and let us hope peace returns to our poor Earth - end of all wars, let us read about them as long gone events even if heroic, but for lov of God not actually fight them. 
Happy Ramadan to all

Valete

Late Rome's Nemesis - oldies but goldies again

 Salvete Omnes, 

 

short entry  with a grat link if you may be a Persian history afficionado

my friend Patryk Skupniewicz - via academia platform - published his article from the Ancient Warfare Magazine from 2008.

The article - Late Rome's Nemesis - deals with the Sassanian side of the Persian vs Roman-Byzantine conflicts, and concetrates on the cavalry and the armored Persian asavaran aka knight horseman. It includes a number of my illustrations, painted on paper. 

I think I have not done any drawings of the Sassanid Persian horsemen, being the kontophoroi or hippotaxatoi, in a long time... 

and some sketches to add more light to this minuscule entry

Valete

A miniature Sassanian soldier figurine

Salve,
 Nadeem Ahmad, friend of mine, student of medicine and history,  and a fine reenactor from UK, specialising in the ancient Persia (Achaemenid, Sassanian etc)

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 graciously brought to my attention this image:

It comes from a website of Aventine Minitures,excellent miniature soldiers & horses,    and it shows the scene of  Sassanian king Shapur I and warriors with the Roman Emperor Philip Arab kneeling in submission ( source - Naqsh-e Rustam Sassanian rock relief and artwork supplied by the immortal Angus McBride's illustration painted  for dr David Nicolle's The Sassanian Army). It is nicely explained on the Aventine Miniatures page devoted to this composition, and here the actual Shapur's inscription from Naqsh-e Rustam.
A larger, historical  drawing from my previous post - relief at Bishapur

The foreground  figure  is based on my illustration for Patryk Skupniewicz's article in the Ancient Warfare magazine done some years ago:

Nota bene I enjoy novels written  by the British historian Harry Sidebottom -series Warrior of Rome - dealing with this period of Roman-Persian relations. I am currently reading the last one - Wolves of the North.
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A post from David Palumbo's blog on shooting (photographing) artwork . David comes from an illustrious art family - Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell

Ancient Greek cavalryman

Salve,
 last week while at a neighbourhood bookstore I read some of the articles in the Ancient Warfare magazine - you can always find some great article or two, or three there (or more, it is quite a dedicated publication - although Desperta Ferro from Spain is my favourite).

I was reading one of the articles by this quite interesting author, Annelies Koolen from Holland, titled 'Athenian cavalry in Sicily - An underestimation of the enemy’s cavalry'.
In that article there was an illustration of a Beotian sculpture (from Thespiae) or relief showing a cavalryman/rider on horseback from Athens' Archaeological Museum, all was quite fine except rider's head was missing.

I sketched a drawing based on that sculpture, and added a bit and reins, but not the bridle...

There was another article there on the Alexander's victory at Grannicus river, and perhaps I will write about this article in the future.

Also, a quick sketch based on a pot of one of the gretest ancient cavalry reenactors John Conyard from British reenactment group Comitatus, an association of ladies and gents who are fabulous in their zeal to reconstruct ancient warriors, their equipment and spirit. By the way many illustrations showing ancient cavalry etc are based on Comitatus  photos.
I salute these passionate people - Ave,  Comitatus!

 These sketches were done with Pentel's Hybrid Technica pens, while colors were added with GIMP (Ubuntu 12.04 for Painters OS )