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Description
Part 2 here.

As the title says, these are all weapons and tools seen on historical artwork. I have to admit I'm extremely fascinated by unusual types of historical weapons, and medieval European "chopper" swords or cleavers are extremely underrated, with the exception of falchions. Most of these weapons were probably used by peasant militias, farmers and "lowly" infantrymen, and as such they were never preserved nor received any attention.
However, artwork from the time period still depicts many of these weapons and tools, so in some cases we can at least have an idea of how they looked even with scarce (or non-existent) historical finds. This is meant to be a "mini-catalogue" of some interesting weapons I saw on historical paintings or miniatures, and if any of you wants to use them as references for your art or settings you are more than welcome to.

The first part is about the famous and mysterious "falchions" seen in the Morgan's Bible (13th century). There are no historical finds of such weapons, but they appear several times and in several shapes in the miniatures.
Some people speculate these were made up by the artist, but I find that unlikely, and after finding other weird weapons in contemporary and older artwork I'm pretty sure it existed (even though it maybe looked different).

The second part deals with weapons seen in paintings and miniatures representing Saint Peter Martyr. He was supposedly killed with a cleaver or an axe, and as such he's always represented with one of such weapons stuck in his head as part of his iconography.
As you can imagine, such paintings are a true gold mine to find example of these "lowly" weapons and tools, especially if they were made during the Rensaissance and thus showed a high level of detail and accuracy.
The first two weapons on the top were poorly drawn in two 13th century miniatures and as such their accuracy is debatable, but all the others were painted in highly detailed artwork, and as such are most likely very accurate. Some of these weapons were as big as a large knife, while others were pretty much oversized cleavers at least as long as an arming sword.

Anyways, hope you find this interesting! Maybe I'll make a "part 2" concerning historical finds and other peasant weapons of later periods.

Description
Part 2 here.

As the title says, these are all weapons and tools seen on historical artwork. I have to admit I'm extremely fascinated by unusual types of historical weapons, and medieval European "chopper" swords or cleavers are extremely underrated, with the exception of falchions. Most of these weapons were probably used by peasant militias, farmers and "lowly" infantrymen, and as such they were never preserved nor received any attention.
However, artwork from the time period still depicts many of these weapons and tools, so in some cases we can at least have an idea of how they looked even with scarce (or non-existent) historical finds. This is meant to be a "mini-catalogue" of some interesting weapons I saw on historical paintings or miniatures, and if any of you wants to use them as references for your art or settings you are more than welcome to.

The first part is about the famous and mysterious "falchions" seen in the Morgan's Bible (13th century). There are no historical finds of such weapons, but they appear several times and in several shapes in the miniatures.
Some people speculate these were made up by the artist, but I find that unlikely, and after finding other weird weapons in contemporary and older artwork I'm pretty sure it existed (even though it maybe looked different).

The second part deals with weapons seen in paintings and miniatures representing Saint Peter Martyr. He was supposedly killed with a cleaver or an axe, and as such he's always represented with one of such weapons stuck in his head as part of his iconography.
As you can imagine, such paintings are a true gold mine to find example of these "lowly" weapons and tools, especially if they were made during the Rensaissance and thus showed a high level of detail and accuracy.
The first two weapons on the top were poorly drawn in two 13th century miniatures and as such their accuracy is debatable, but all the others were painted in highly detailed artwork, and as such are most likely very accurate. Some of these weapons were as big as a large knife, while others were pretty much oversized cleavers at least as long as an arming sword.

Anyways, hope you find this interesting! Maybe I'll make a "part 2" concerning historical finds and other peasant weapons of later periods.