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Interesting post about costume here.
This paragraph in particular caught my attention...
What we think of as “peasant garb” is actually the product of a game of telephone that travels back from Romantic Revival art, and many of those (urban) artists got their idea of what rural peasants wore from opera costumes. The costumers working at the opera were not going out to the country side to take notes on what farmers actually wore, nor did they want to. Opera is show biz, you want it to be evocative, but not ordinary. Their costumes would have been based on what urban folks were wearing, with extra little touches like a shepherds crook to make it look “rural”.
... because it was Wagner's Ring Cycle that gave us horned helmets.
They didn't originate with the Vikings. They originated with the 1876 costume designs for a bunch of operas, and those designs by Carl Emil Doepler still exist.
For reference, all the horny characters are mortals.
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Those helmets were probably based on archaeological finds, even though all Northern European examples are, AFAIK and depending on context, either religious headgear equivalent to a bishop's mitre, or ceremonial headgear equivalent to a crown.
In addition, every single one predates the Viking Age by a period ranging from a couple of centuries to a couple of millennia so - makes vague handwave gesture - they're more appropriate for the sorta-kinda mythic Migration Era setting of the Ring than any Vik who ever inged..
Doepler's designs also feature WINGED helmets, worn by immortals like Wotan...
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... and the Valkyries.
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Something else I encountered when looking for pics to illustrate this was that other clichéd armour error, the boob-plate.
Here's dramatic soprano Karin Branzell wearing one...
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...while here's heroic tenor Fritz Vogelstrom also wearing one.
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He's singing the role of Siegfried but wearing the costume of Brunnhilde, at least that's how it looks to an operatic Philistine like me.
Anyway...
Winged helmets are even more historically dodgy - no archaeological evidence at all - yet are actually more feasible as working combat helmets.
The difference is that horns, being heavy, need sturdy mountings so a horned helmet both provides catch-points for incoming blows and handles for an enemy to grapple, while a winged helmet does neither. The wings, being light, wouldn't need solid fixtures so would just shear off under a weapon or come off in an enemy's hands.
I'm well aware that other times, places and cultures - Indo-Persia, Poland, Japan etc. - had helmets with wings, horns and all sorts of other stuff, but this is about how the popular image of Vikings that headgear came from opera.
And went all over the place... :->
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hark! it's the cringefail loser squad from on high
#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel fanart#lute hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel adam#art#artists on tumblr#animation#illustration#digital art#digital illustration#csp#clip studio paint#i admire how in it to win i they were lmao#like they did NOT need to be operating at the level they were but they did it anyway#also adam's outfits were really hard to keep straight and i mixed them up a bit on accident but it's okay#ALSO their helmets really kind of scared me at first like they are quite spooky#i also thought that was...their faces? until they took them off and then it was like oh okay phew lmao#also last thing i really really like how adam's wings sort of hang low and tuck around his sides?? it looks really nice and fun
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Guys, hear me out.
"Wouldn't you like" stage ver but Hermes is wearing one of those
#HEAR ME OUT#plus a helmet with wings too#epic the musical#epic: the musical#epic the circe saga#epic hermes#the circe saga
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"Tregardis the Thunderor" (Ken Simpson, Pegasus magazine #3, Judges Guild, August 1981)
#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#Ken Simpson#fighter#Judges Guild#Pegasus magazine#knight#Tregardis the Thunderor#dnd#winged helmet#Dungeons and Dragons#1980s
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YEONJUN ✙ The Star Chapter: SANCTUARY - Concept Photo 'KNIGHT'
#yeonjun#choi yeonjun#tomorrow x together#txt#the star chapter: sanctuary#edits#creations#useryeonbins#userzaynab#skyehi#rosieblr#megtag#hibiebear#usercchuu#heyiri#ultkpopnetwork#kpopccc#kpopco#fdhdhh he's so hot 😳#but i swear this is 'eternally' in different font#hybe has 3 props only wings helmets and piercings lmao#but i love this take on the 'knight on a white horse' xd
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Lets give it up for: 🐂⚔️Max of Verstappen House, Son of Jos the Unburnt, Rightful Heir of The Red Bull Horde⚔️🐂
@dzala-va medieval au is breathtaking bro
#max verstappen#f1#formula 1#art#eggon#medieval au#obsessed with this au its so cool#happy 4th title win or whatever i dont watch f1#also cows and bulls yippiiieee#i fucked up the helmet paint a bit and had to wing like 50% of the armor 😭😭
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could you draw Enyo pleasepleaseplease?
sketch bc im tired lol
#i really should have designed ares first#but i gave her wings bc shes conflated w eris a lot#cool helmet#shed look a lot better w color but yeah#my artwork#digital art#ochi asked#greek mythology#greek gods#enyo#tagamemnon#character design
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Mercury = Hermes, right?
#my art#houseki no kuni#hnk cinnabar#cinnabar#宝石の国#brazilian artists#brart#land of the lustrous#greek mythology#I'm not a mythology expert#I mainly took inspiration from old greek statues and paintings of Hermes#They were supposed to be wearing the iconic winged helmet#but I thought the wings would look better in their head instead
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something possessed me to draw X absolutely FANBOYING over *something* (i have no idea what and i am completely open for ideas)
#megaman x#megaman#x mega man#doodle#also i just finished watching gameplay of mm8#i like bass more now#his design is just so cool...#i love the gold and black and winged looking helmet#then the evil energy form is just????#its even cooler like YOOOOOOO!!!!#hes my live rendition when i saw how cute rock was and how cool bass' design was#ALSO I NEED MORE MOMENTS WHERE ROLL AND ROCK HUG#i know. archie comics#i have them but AAAAA ITS SOCUTE#im rambling in tags#whos stopping me
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Bust of a Warrior in a Winged Helmet by Leonardo da Vinci
#leonardo da vinci#art#renaissance#drawing#bust#soldier#warrior#helmets#wings#helmet#armour#europe#european#italy#italian#history
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I can't think of anything to say so have a good day!
#hetalia#hetalia canada#aph canada#hws canada#The yapper doesn't have anything to yap about#I just wanted to draw him in a pilots helmet tbh#First time coloring leather too i just winged it (can this be considered a pun? I hope so!)#Ok maybe I did have some things to yap about but its nothing substantial
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Allegory of Victory
Artist: Mathieu Le Nain (French, 1607–1677)
Date: circa 1635
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France
#allegorical art#victory#mathieu le nain#french art#european art#female figure#male#landscape#winged woman#helmet#nude female#garment#17th century art
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Armor! An idea I had was to have most of the helmet rest on the horns and snout rather than the cranial parts to distribute force away from the important bits of the head. I don’t think theres a name for something like this, so I made one up, a suspended helm due to it not touching most of the head! Cool thing is, its a helmet configuration thats unique to dragons, (and goats too, I guess), Humans can’t really wear something like this because we don’t have giant horns or muzzle protrusions sticking out of our heads to rest a helmet on.
It probably makes it way more likely to break the nose bone or horns when the helmets struck, but hey better that than a fractured skull!!!
#wof art#wof#dragon#wings of fire#art#fantasy#wingsoffire#fanart#dragons#wof fanart#armor#helmet#world building#concept#my art
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Let's go crush some Skaven ratheads by NNNmengmeng
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Paladin vs deadly alien grass (Jim Roslof, AD&D module S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax, TSR, 1980)
#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#Jim Roslof#Expedition to the Barrier Peaks#dnd#paladin#AD&D#carnivorous plant#science fantasy#sci fi#fantasy#winged helmet#1980s#TSR#Dungeons and Dragons
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DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS companions + the Grey Warden armor.
#daedit#daoedit#dragonageedit#gamingedit#dragon age#dragon age origins#dao#edits#alistair theirin#loghain mac tir#leliana#morrigan#wynne#zevran#oghren#wanted to go with a more complicated edit#like the ones i make on main but you know what#they all deserve their nice lil spot#the helmets are not showing but please imagine all the mages and rogues with their funky little hoods#and the warriors looking absolutely serious in their winged commander hats#my warden was just there losing her mind#cause you know we SPLURGED on these matchy matchy sets#rip to sten dog and shale who wore it in spirit ok
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