To the devotee, each brightly painted hussar and mustachioed grenadier is an honest work of art, deserving the same ... But mostly the Paris trade is in old soldiers of Louis XIII, XIV, XV and ...
The Roman "scutum" was a tall, semi-cylindrical shield most popular from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. A scutum in the Yale University Art Gallery is one of the few surviving ...