"Dustjacket image, Art of Renaissance Warfare" Topic

Just received Turnbull's "The Art of Warfare in the Renaissance."

The dust-jacket is based on a fascinating image

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showing stradiots, knights, landsknechts, and a hoard of various (probable) Turks. Anyone recognize it? It does not appear in the text, the jacket lists the designer without the image source, and the title elements, as you can see from the links, cover what may well be some of the best parts. I'd like to study it further, just for the painting ideas.

It is a painting by an unknown Polish master of the Battle of Orsha, 1514, between Poles and Muscovites, which the latter lost. See more details here:

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Excellent! Thank you very much!

Well picked up.

If you want more information on the battle can I suggest you try and locate: "Art, Arms and Armour" an international anthology. Edited by Robert Held – Volume 1, 1979 Aquafresca Editrice SA, Chiasso Switzerland.
ISBN 88 – 85035 – 00 – 0.

Fascinating set of articles on weapons of all sorts but specifically a chapter on the Battle of Orsha by the curator of the National Museum of Cracow.

The painting itself is displayed in the National Museum of Warsaw, measuring 162 x 232 cm. The article dissects the painting and the battle in great detail. Also has an appendix of very handy black and white drawings of the figures in the painting.

Highly recommended. I picked this up years ago as remaindered stock.

Good luck!

Thanks for pointing that out, I must look into that book. Some of the lads on the left of the image look like they might be carrying pistols. But that would be very early and they might be the top of horse bows carried in the right hand.