Effigies (1450-1470(1480))

[echo siren]

Effigy of Melchior von Hirschhorn and Kunigunde von Oberstein Ca. 1452-56

Effigy of Count Eberhard V. von Kirchberg and his wife Kunigunde von Wertheim (Raised ~1475), Catholich Parish Church, Wiblingen (Ulm), Germany.

"Dierick von der Merwede, 1452, at Meeuwen, North Brabant (Netherlands)."

"On the 19th November 1473 Nicholas Fitzherbert of Norbury, Derbyshire died. His monument at the Church of St Barlok, Norbury, one of the finest alabaster monuments in the country."

Robert, Lord Hungerford (d. 1459) at Salisbury Cathedral

"Sir Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (d. 1439) According to surviving documents, the work on the armor began in 1449 and finished in 1454" (this is me, btw)

Wilhelm von Rechberg zu Hohenrechberg 1452

ca. 1475 - 'Balthasar von Zindel, Franziskanerkirche, Würzburg, Bayern, Germany

Effigy of Arnould de Hamal, 1456, Limburg, Belgium

Effigy of Robert Eyre (+1459), Church of St Michael and All Angels, Hathersage.

Sir Robert Staunton 1458 Castle Doninton

Monumental brass to Sir William Stapleton, died 1458, and his wife Margaret.

Effigy of Truchsessen Georg I. von Waldburg-Zeil, Bad Wurzach, Old Palace Chapel (d. 1467).

"c.1458 Effigy of Ulrichs I. von Rechberg zu Hohenrechberg, parish church St. Martin. fishtail pommel and a half-wire grip." "Pictures from Daniel Burger."

[timber swan]

hey i think a better idea for this might be effigies from where the person died in like 1440 or 1445 or something

my reasoning is that there being one big post on effigies kind of under-emphasizes posting specific things in specific channels and ends up a big hodgepodge of various things - instead of categorizing something by looking down to find details and interesting bits it’s put in one big generic post that kind of waters down the “potency” of each thing posted no matter how special or unspecial it may be

i think the unique medium can be taken advantage of by looking toward effigies from the period i stated, since they take so much time it’d be an interesting look at the sort of pseudo-transitional period between 1440 and 1450 and how the artist decided to render equipment that may be lost or incomplete in a more contemporary (to them) lens

Are you smelling what i’m stepping in

[echo siren]

I see little bit of whatcha mean. Could you expand on that?

[timber swan]

i think that putting it into a big thread for one whole medium would sort of defeat the categorized nature and intent of the channel by making too broad of a category

[echo siren]

I see

A little more broad for a post?

[timber swan]

for example, i think it incentivizes “hmm, here’s a random effigy i found, click post” instead of “where could i put this instead because of its unique parts or time period”

i think we’d lose out on insight is the bottom line

but i think a channel showing effigies of people dead before half swords period but actually constructed during would offer specialized insight into how the artisan decided to portray only slightly old armor or how they reconstructed things that might not have survived

[echo siren]

So one post should be people who died before 1450?

I don't want to post effigies that include unique parts only, I think it would probably be better if it was based off the years

I say that because if there was a unique part to it like a tabard, it should be in a post dedicated to tabards

[echo siren]

Or "time period"

But yeah it would be more organized for how many references there are

[timber swan]

yes