3 little knights - the first one

franceso sbarile · Oct 19, 2015

Some time ago I purchased the boxes of 3 old 90mm kits of medieval kights from Soldiers, wonderfully sculpted by Laruccia. Since all of them represent a 14th century knight I decided to paint each one coming from a different part of Italy (north, middle, south) and I just started with south.
Raimondo del Balzo was a very important people in the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, general commander of Naples army as well as the governor of Sicily along over 20 years. he has a complex biography and a central presence in all the events of southern Italy in the fourteenth century.

Viking Bob · Oct 19, 2015

Excellent painting, love this and looking forward to the others.
Regards

FigureLover · Oct 19, 2015

Some nice colours and some deep shadows. I like this one and look forward to seeing the other two
Ben

peedee · Oct 19, 2015

nice

paul

Perseas · Oct 19, 2015

Magnificent paintwork Franceso!
The face is fantastic and you did an amazing work with metals!
Congratulations!!!

John Bowery · Oct 19, 2015

Nice start on the trio.
Cheers
John

arj · Oct 19, 2015

Nicely painted, and the face is suitably red for the exertion involved.

Cheers,
Andrew

franceso sbarile · Oct 20, 2015

Thanks to everybody for comments and likes.
Francesco

franceso sbarile · Nov 12, 2015

Just the shield of the next one (still in work) , historical notes will follow...

Cheers
Francesco

megroot · Nov 12, 2015

promising start.
The first one looks great.

marc

Mike Stevens · Nov 12, 2015

Nice work on this one.

franceso sbarile · Nov 13, 2015

Many thanks to everybody guys. As I promise here after some historical notes about the owner of the shield
Guidoriccio from Fogliano (Reggio Emilia, 1290 - Siena, June 16, 1352) was an Italian war captain, imperial vicar for Reggio Emilia, mayor of Padua, Verona and often war captain the town of Siena. It went down in history for his depiction in the famous fresco by Simone Martini in the Public Palace in Siena that represents the siege of Montemassi. About this fresco some discussions arose at the beginning of the eighty's about the identity of the knight represent into the paint since Siena and his war captain was, at the age of the work of Simone Martini, in disagreement and Guidoriccio left Siena to Reggio Emilia. However late research found in Padua mayors's heraldry book a reference to Guidoriccio with the same elements of the fresco heraldry.