02-05-2017, 09:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-05-2017, 11:33 AM by Crispianus.)
"Maybe, there are some interesting shoes from the late Roman era that I don't know exactly how they were constructed. Take for example the Sandals of the Centurion in the Santa Maria's Slaughter of the Innocents Mosaic, or as I already mentioned the Cothurni in the Argos Museum Mosaic. Plenty of others too."
Not difficult based on existing shoes it depends on how complex you want to make it, for me they represent low cut shoes with straps either as part of the upper or seperate... for example take one of these and cut it lower add additional lace holes and long wide laces/straps and you have your mosaic shoe, though it is of course speculative and could be made by a number of ways to produce the the same look, whats important for this is the detail such as seams this will indicate a possible method and pattern for the parts... but this is exactly the detail mosaics lack....
This is the Hellinistic style I was talking about, there are a number of variations....... its a similar representation though much more detailed even down to the "socks"... The mosaic shoe and others could also be a simplified represention of Caliga there must have been plenty of representations about to base it on though again such footware has long since disapeared in the Arch record....
The mosaic: http://christianiconography.info/staMari...sPage.html
Not difficult based on existing shoes it depends on how complex you want to make it, for me they represent low cut shoes with straps either as part of the upper or seperate... for example take one of these and cut it lower add additional lace holes and long wide laces/straps and you have your mosaic shoe, though it is of course speculative and could be made by a number of ways to produce the the same look, whats important for this is the detail such as seams this will indicate a possible method and pattern for the parts... but this is exactly the detail mosaics lack....
This is the Hellinistic style I was talking about, there are a number of variations....... its a similar representation though much more detailed even down to the "socks"... The mosaic shoe and others could also be a simplified represention of Caliga there must have been plenty of representations about to base it on though again such footware has long since disapeared in the Arch record....
The mosaic: http://christianiconography.info/staMari...sPage.html
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
