Aug 27, 2009

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 [...]
Dec 15, 2008

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 [...]
Dec 3, 2007

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 [...]