1328

Simone Martini, Fresco of Guidoriccio da Fogliano at the Siege of Monte Massi in 1328

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1328 A.D.

A two door pavilion with guy ropes for the just above the bottom edge (the material seems to hang straight down to the ground from the attachment point), roof edge using the three point attachment method, plus a guy rope from each of the two poles in line with the long axis of the pavilion, the door material is hung to the side of the door on the one of the roof line guy ropes, the heraldic shields (on the left a heater with a per fess partition, while on the right is a heater with a lion rampant on a dark field) are depicted on the roof.

A bell tent with a large ball apex at the top of the pole, the guy ropes system is very similar to number 1 but there at three guy ropes attached to the top of the pole, the single door is opened the same as the first tent.

Note; the lower ranks are housed in wedge shaped grass hunts.

“An encampment before an Italian city. The Siense flag flies above the tents. Notice the grass huts. From a fresco of 1328 by Simone Martini, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.”

Simone Martinis fresco of Guidoriccio da Fogliano at the Siege of Monte Massi in 1328, Scala / Palazzo Publico, Sienna.

Gravett, C., Medieval Siege Warfare, London, 1990, p. 22.

Links to picture

http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/tents/pictures/frombob/tentpic4.html

The Fresco of Guidoriccio da Fogliano, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

SIMONE MARTINI

Other work by Simone Martini:

1312 - 1317 A.D. (Scenes from the Life of St Maartin (St. Martin Renounces his Weapons)
Cappella di San Martino of San Fancesco, Assisi)

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SIMONE MARTINI - Italian painter, Sienese school (b. 1280/85, Siena, d. 1344, Avignon)

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