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German Soldier Waking a Knight
Sleeping Guards at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.


A larger image of this German Soldier Waking a Knight. Sleeping Guards at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.
View from right of the German Soldier on the left. Sleeping Guards at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.

ca. 1346-1348 - 'soldiers at the Holy Sepulchre', Cathédrale, Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg, France
The soldier on the right is wearing a bascinet with a camail and has taken off his (visored) heaume. Note the studded thighs and the early plate gauntlets. The soldier on the left is wearing a coat-of-plates under his surcoat and a visored bascinet.
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