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This is something you don’t generally see in swashbuckling films, a duellist being stabbed through the eye. To judge by the plates in Nicoletto Giganti’s sword-fighting manual it seems to have been a very common form of attack; duels with bare blades were a serious business. For some reason most of the combatants in these [...]

Men and their swords.

• Sabre-rattling

• Salomé scored

• Fencing fashion again

• Antonin Mercié’s David

• Nicoletto Giganti’s naked duellists

• The art of Oliver Frey

• Fencing fashion

• The recurrent pose #26

• Xiphophilia

• Katana twink

• Eonism and Eonnagata

• Macho men

• Battle of the Naked Men

• Naked hussar

• Parsifal

• Cocteau’s sword

• Vintage swordplay #3

• Vintage swordplay #2

• Sword on the [...]

Previous posts about etchings and engravings.

• Frans De Geetere’s illustrated Maldoror

• Schott’s Physica Curiosa

• Grandville’s Un Autre Monde

• The Triumph of the Phallus

• The art of Oleg Denysenko

• Nicoletto Giganti’s naked duellists

• Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

• Jan Saenredam’s whale

• Digital alchemy

• Oeuvres D’Architecture by Jean Le Pautre

• Gramato-graphices

• Edward William Lane’s Arabian Nights [...]