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June 5

Caspar Röist Image

Hello!

Does anyone know if there is any illustration/image of Caspar Röist, captain of the Swiss Guard out there on the internet? I get the feeling that if there ever was one, it was most likely either destroyed in the sack of Rome or kept in some library in the Vatican. Sorry if this is an irrelevant question on a very minor historical figure (haha)!

-Roosterchz Roosterchz (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

It's not at all irrelevant. However, although entering "Caspar Röist" in a common search engine yields a number of images, those that are historically contemporary (that I have examined) turn out to be of other people involved (such as the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor of the time). Most others appear to be recent and therefore conjectural – he has of course been prtrayed in film (and, it appears, anime or manga-related media). Nor does any factual article in a Reliable source I have seen contain an illustration of him, which – since a 16th-century portrait would be in the public domain – suggests there aren't any.

Disclaimer: I am not a historian or art historian, and my search was far from exhaustive, so it's quite possible that someone else might be able to do better. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 188.220.136.217 (talk) 16:42, 8 June 2024 (UTC)