Olifant (instrument): Difference between revisions

Olifants were omnipresent throughout Europe. Inventories of the Renaissance treasuries and armories contain many trumpets in ivory, metal, wood, used for signaling, hunting, and battle.<ref name=":1" /> In the 1507 inventory of Alvaro Borges, a note is recorded about the bill of sale for the deceased man's possessions, including various African objects along with a "small ivory".<ref name=":1" /> An ivory bugle is listed in the inventory of the possessions of André Marques, a navigator who died aboard the caravel Santiago during a voyage from São Tomé to Portugal.<ref name=":1" /> In addition, artwork from Benin and Sierra Leone were also considered Afro-Portuguese art that would also appear in European collections.<ref name=":1" /> A noteworthy insight is that the people of these African regions had their own artistic traditions that had existed before their first contact with the Portuguese, and these objects were very sought after by European collectors.<ref name=":1" />

 

In Washington Irving's 1809 fictional ''[[A History of New York]]'', the trumpter [[Anthony Van Corlaer]] blows a [[mock-heroic]] last blast of warning before drowning in [[Spuyten Duyvil Creek]].

 

 

The horn was later presented to [[Denethor]], Steward of Gondor as proof of his son's death. In the movie of ''The Return of the King,'' he holds the horn, now split in two, and demands an explanation for what happened from the [[Wizards in Middle-earth|wizard]] [[Gandalf]].

 

 

 

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