Female duelists

[gerembeau]

I really like these! 2 women in a gladiatorial fight to the death.
To me it looks like one of the women has a big advantage - she's more heavily armed and she has the shield and helmet to protect her while the other woman is forced to fight almost completely naked - yet she still manages to turn the tables and defeat her opponent

I really like these! 2 women in a gladiatorial fight to the death.
To me it looks like one of the women has a big advantage - she's more heavily armed and she has the shield and helmet to protect her while the other woman is forced to fight almost completely naked - yet she still manages to turn the tables and defeat her opponent

They are equipped in the same way as the mirmillon and the rétiaire in the arena.

 

[ducon007]

Illustration by Jean Gradassi for "L’escole de l’interest et l’université d’amour, 1662" (The School of Interest and the University of Love), by Claude Le Petit.
To be mentioned that Claude Le Petit had the misfortune to be convicted of blasphemy and burned at the stake when he was just 23 years old!

 

[gerembeau]

Illustration by Jean Gradassi for "L’escole de l’interest et l’université d’amour, 1662" (The School of Interest and the University of Love), by Claude Le Petit.
To be mentioned that Claude Le Petit had the misfortune to be convicted of blasphemy and burned at the stake when he was just 23 years old!

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Wow !

 

[mysterybadger]

Hell hath no fury...

 

[gerembeau]

 

[mysterybadger]

Number two above is by Josef Arpád Koppay inspired by Professor Hartl’s Corps of Viennese Fencing Ladies, whch flourtished in fin de siecle Vienna and who conducted fencing displays including “rapier and dagger duels”​

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[vadim69]

 

[gerembeau]

THX you both for superb finds !

 

[ducon007]

Duelists from bygone days...
Artist is Lipatov.

 

[gerembeau]

 

[gerembeau]

 

[gerembeau]

 

[ducon007]

"Combate de Mujeres"
(Women's fight)
By Jose de Ribera (1636)



"Duel of Mistresses"
The cover detail of the magazine "Le petit Parisien", November 1907

 

[gerembeau]

 

[gerembeau]

Last female. duelists....

 

[ducon007]

Unknown artist.

 

[Hugin&Munin]

Female duelists at foil fencing

 

[Naraku]

Unknown artist.

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