Body cinema: Renaissance Martial Arts, part 2

January 3, 2010

As you can see history has been pretty brutal in Renaissance too, compared to the dark Middle Ages. Let’s see where all these guys in tight pants, armor costumes with charming periwigs ended up…

renaissance_martial_art.jpgIllustration: Johannes Georg Paschen, 1659,  thehaca.com

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Body cinema: Renaissance Martial Arts, part 1

You don’t have to be a history geek to watch this interesting web documentary on Renaissance Martial Arts… No, no… don’t expect some ancient super hero in tight clothes…

martial_arts.jpgIllustration: Hans Wurm, cca 1500, taken from thehaca.com

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