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The Man with the Golden Helmet. The Man with the Golden Helmet (c. 1650) is an oil -on-canvas painting formerly attributed to the Dutch painter Rembrandt and today considered to be a work by someone in his circle. The Man with the Golden Helmet is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Design. An 1880 illustration showing Ned Kelly's helmet and armour suit complete with an apron and shoulder plates. The gang's armour was made of iron 6 mm thick, each consisting of a long breast-plate, shoulder-plates, back-guard, apron and helmet. The helmet resembled a tin can without a crown, and included a long slit for the eyes.
Coordinates: 52.5208°N 13.3964°E. Bust in the British Museum. The statue of Pericles with the Corinthian Helmet is a lost, life-sized statue of the Athenian statesman and general Pericles. Today, only some of the base survives. Four Roman Imperial -era marble busts modelled after the head of the statue are known.
William Charles Utermohlen (December 5, 1933 – March 21, 2007) was an American figurative artist known for his late-period self-portraits completed after his diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease. He was diagnosed in 1995, having had progressive memory loss since 1991. After diagnosis he began a series of self-portraits influenced by both ...
The Old English word for helmet was helm. In battle, helmets would have served to protect the wearer's head from enemy blows. [108] Evidence indicates that helmets were never common in Anglo-Saxon England, [109] although their usage may have increased by the eleventh century. [107]
Grace. (photograph) The original black and white photo. Later versions may have color or a second light source added. Grace is a photograph by Eric Enstrom. It depicts an elderly man called (Charles Wilden) with hands folded, saying a prayer over a table with a simple meal. In 2002, an act of the Minnesota State Legislature established it as ...
Pioneer Helmet. / 52.25553; -0.70387. The Pioneer Helmet (also known as the Wollaston Helmet or Northamptonshire Helmet) is an Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet from the late seventh century found in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. It was discovered during a March 1997 excavation before the land was to be mined for gravel and was ...
Tolkien made a drawing of Old Man Willow while writing the chapter about him; his son Christopher suggests it was based on a tree by the River Cherwell at Oxford. A predatory tree appears in a 1934 poem , but Tolkien did not arrive at the malevolent Old Man Willow, both tree and spirit, for some years.