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Dragonair
02-23-2008, 07:09 AM
Yes, I know classifications for drawings would never be precise, but I think we still need to classify one of Europe's great kings:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/860/charlemagne2fi1.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5863/carlomagnour2.png
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7793/ist23785466charlemagnelf8.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9412/portraitofcharlemagnewhcd3.png
Well, even I am confused now, in picture 1 he looks norid, in 2 dinaric, and in 3-4 armenoid...
Larrikin
02-23-2008, 09:42 AM
You're becoming more daft every day. There is absolutely no contemporary drawing or painting of Charlemagne, the closest one would be this 10th century painting that is said to be a remake of an 820 A.D. original (and even THAT was after Karl's death). "Classify" the guy in the upper left corner if you like.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Karl_der_Grosse_-_Pippin_der_Bucklige.jpg/250px-Karl_der_Grosse_-_Pippin_der_Bucklige.jpg
Your above paintings have nothing to do with the looks of Charlemagne whatsoever, but merely reflect the artists idea of what a king should look like.
And your racial obsession is really most annoying by now. Can' you act out your neurosis somewhere else?
Edit:
This coin portrait of Charlemagne might be contemporary, so classify this:
http://www.kaiserpfalz-ingelheim.de/images/dt_fu01_01.jpg
Dragonair
02-23-2008, 10:55 AM
Sorry, I didn't know, you can lock this. I promise to bring only real photos from now on.
///M power
02-23-2008, 11:31 AM
Karl Der grosse is the greatest European person during medieval times.. I took a course last semester about the franks,Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, it was very interesting.
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Karl_der_Grosse7.jpg
Jimbo Gomez
02-23-2008, 12:59 PM
Obviously 100% pure nordic. Case closed.
Larrikin
02-24-2008, 08:54 AM
Karl Der grosse is the greatest European person during medieval times.. I took a course last semester about the franks,Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, it was very interesting.
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Karl_der_Grosse7.jpg
I think this Dürer portrait has shaped public the image of Karl immensely.
Though he looks very dark in this reproduction, Karl looks older and wiser in the original that I saw in Nuremberg. And of course this is early 16th century, about 700 years after Karl's death...
Kodos
02-24-2008, 09:04 AM
No non Germanic blood in Charlemagne's line that im aware of so pure German.
There are no actual portraits of Charlemagne.
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