are these historically accurate executioner's masks?
hair is hot. i sure hope that's a lady. anyway considering the very wide variety of executioner masks used throughout time and the seemingly bizarre design of these in particular, i don't think the producers pulled it out of their asses
>>17415478There's zero evidence of executional masks in Europe in art/woodcuts and the museum pieces are forgeries mostly from the Victorian era. So yeah, I'm calling bullshit.
>>17415494https://bilderfahrzeuge.hypotheses.org/3587"Meaningful Forgeries: Some Remarks on ‘Executioner’s Masks’"
>>17415478That's Alec Guinness. >>17415494Would executioner's not try to hide their identity? I would imagine they would be hated and people would try to assassinate them.
>>17415478>hair is hot. i sure hope that's a lady
>>17415525>Would executioner's not try to hide their identity?That's a relatively modern concern. Remember it's not the executioner ordering the death. Also many executions were public. So there was obviously no concern for hiding anything.It's only in the modern era that executions in the west stopped being public.
>>17415525>>17415545oh. oh no
>>17415494>they didn't include it in art therefore not real>Europeans drew dragons n shit therefore they're realThat's how you sound, dumb ass. Besides, the black hooded mask is documented in sources from early 17th century England. Executioners were often people who were appointed to the job on the spot. When that person had social connections or was a well known local, they could opt for robes that covered their face.
>>17415603>>they didn't include it in art therefore not real>>Europeans drew dragons n shit therefore they're realDragon depictions in Europe evolved from snake like and eventually reach the classic western dragon appearance. The oldest form of horned snakes feature on the Gundestrup cauldron.They are horned snakes because they are based upon the horned viper (Vipera ammodytes) That inhabits southern Europe and probably had a greater geographical range in the past.>>17415603>That's how you sound, dumb ass. Besides, the black hooded mask is documented in sources from early 17th century EnglandA black hood isn't the OP's weird beaked mask anon. Once again, no special executioner masks like OP's are ever displayed in old woodcuts or manuscript illustrations. Just the victim to be executed is blindfolded sometimes. Come to think of it, I've never seen an executioner's hood or robe in period art either. So you're probably misremembering.
