Anon, Veronese ‘Camp Scene’
 
Date Description Source Reference
Second quarter of the 15th century.  Two bell tents of similar design. 

Front bell tent, rectangular banner, three lobed apex, very short roof, multiple single guy ropes descending from the valance, pole has horizontal lines probably indicating a join. 

  Fig. 126. Anon. (Veronese), ‘Camp Scene’. Drawing, second quarter of the fifteenth century, London, British Museum.  Hale, J.R., Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, London, 1990, p. 78.

For similar tents see;

1460 A.D. (Justinus, “Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi”)

  1493 A.D. (Vittore Carpaccio, 'Martyrdom and Funeral of Saint Ursala')

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