Similar I suppose to the weapons thread, but different enough in that it isn't focusing purely on individual weapons.
This is an artillery park, by the designer, inventor, engineer, sculptor, painter and all round polymath mixed race homosexual, Leonardo da Vinci :
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A Janissary by Gentile Bellini :
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Albrecht Durer: A Soldier On Horseback
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The Straits of Gibraltar, from a map for the Ottoman Sultan by the Admiral Piri Reis:
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Turks inspecting a cannon they have captured, again by Albrecht Durer :
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From a map of Mallorca by Gratiosus Benincasa :
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Mehmet The Conqueror from a medal struck by Costanzo da Ferrara:
This is an artillery park, by the designer, inventor, engineer, sculptor, painter and all round polymath mixed race homosexual, Leonardo da Vinci :
A Janissary by Gentile Bellini :
Albrecht Durer: A Soldier On Horseback
The Straits of Gibraltar, from a map for the Ottoman Sultan by the Admiral Piri Reis:
Turks inspecting a cannon they have captured, again by Albrecht Durer :
From a map of Mallorca by Gratiosus Benincasa :
Mehmet The Conqueror from a medal struck by Costanzo da Ferrara:
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