Two mounted knights in armor for different types of jousts and tournaments.
Two mounted knights in armor for a joust. The knight on the left is from a joust with high barde (high saddle armor). He wears yellow hatched tunic with black skirt and breast armor, massive white plumes on his helmet. His horse blanket is yellow with black-hatched borders and two naked women with pink ribbons and a baby. His lance has the three-pronged coronet. The knight on the right is from an Italian joust. He wears a pale green tunic and helmet feathers, his horse a green blanket decorated with three grenades. His lance has the three-pronged coronet. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796)
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