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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830581" data-attributes="member: 53455">Soldiers asleep (2016)This Romanesque historied capital from around 1100 depicts the Roman soldiers asleep by Jesus’s tomb, on Holy Saturday. It is in the abbey church of Mozac in Auvergne (central France).There is this trait in human nature that can be recognized throughout History and which makes people adapt things and scenes to what existed at the time they were creating their works, regardless of historical accuracy. In this instance, the Roman soldiers wear Mediæval soldierly garb, although no soldier thus attired ever stood watch over the Christ’s tomb... Same thing about, say, science-fiction: when H. G. Wells depicts the future in War of the Worlds, that future looks very much like late 19th century Victorian England... but we in “modern” times are no better: see what the future looks like in, for example, Star Trek of the 1970s, with all those oranges, yellows and browns so typical of the decade... Didn’t set decorators and directors realize how outdated (or how dated!) their works would look 20 or 30 years later? Didn’t they care? This tendency to disregard historical accuracy i,n favor on the fashions of the day always puzzled me.Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens.[ATTACH=full]416845[/ATTACH]</blockquote>