File:Three irish kerns Albert Durer 1521.png

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English: In 1521 Albrecht Dürer drew a group of Irish and Scottish Warriors (three Galloglass and two Kerns. This is a part a drawing of these five soldiers of the 16th century, that shows how they dressed and carried themselves. At left is a Scottish gallòglach (Gallowglass), who is carrying his claidheamh mhòr (great sword), followed by two bare foot kern (gealic warriors) carrying pole axes and a cow horn trumpet.
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Source http://inevitablespark.blogspot.com/2012/07/albrecht-durer-irish-warriors-and.html
Author
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)    
 
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471  6 April 1528 
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 –1528 
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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  • : Q5580
  • VIAF: 54146999
  • ISNI: 0000000120961368
  • ULAN: 500115493
  • LCCN: n79118011
  • NLA: 35051029
  • WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q5580

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