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The focus of this linkspage is on smiths' protective outerwear (especially blacksmiths' aprons) as seen in pre-17th century artwork.
- Regenbogen in the Manesse Codex, c. 1300-1330
- A blacksmith making a horseshoe, a book of hours (Brit. Lib. Harley 6563, fol. 68v), c. 1320-1330
- A blacksmith wears an apron while working on a horseshoe, Brunetto Latini's Book of the Treasure (BNF Fr. 571, fol. 66v), ca. 1326
- A woman blacksmith and a man (probably Hedroit and his wife) in The Holkham Bible (Brit. Lib. Add. 47680), c. 1327-1335
- Jubal and Tubal-Cain, Speculum Humanae Salvationis (ÖNB s. n. 2612, fol. 25v), c. 1330-1340
- The Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264), 1338-1344, fols. 84r, 164v, 165r, and 171v
- Nature at her forge, Roman de la Rose (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, MS 1126, fol. 115), c. 1350-1360
- Two blacksmiths, Liber Astrologiae (Brit. Lib. Sloane 3983, f.5), second half of the 14th century
- The descent from the cross, The small hours of the Duke of Berry (BNF Fr. 18014, fols. 92v and 141), c. 1375
- Minerva (and working men & women), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598, fol. 13), beginning of the 15th century
- Detail from the February fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
- Venus and Mars surprised by Vulcan, Ovid's Metamorphoses (BNF Fr. 137, fol. 46v), second half of the 15th century
- Journey to Cavalry in The Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier, ca. 1455: Hedroit the blacksmith's wife making nails.
- Vulcan, Êchecs amoreux (BNF Fr. 143, fol. 148), c. 1496-1498
- Some of the smiths in the Mendel Hausbuch, including a smith (1426), a farrier (1427), a farrier (1432), a farrier (1467), and a nailsmith (1529)
- A scene in a forge by Jan Verbeeck, 1548
- A stained-glass rondel of a smithy from Sternberk, c. 1580-1600
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