Venetian City Guard

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

I hope this is the right forum for this question, even though it has to do with what is essentially a fantasy/horror  game:

Does anyone know if the mostly medium blue uniforms depicted in Carnevale are historically accurate ?

[sundancer 42972xp 0]

I think @avernos or @panzerkaputt could know anything about that… potentially… I’m totally lost on the subject, sorry 😉

[avernosKeymaster 33947xp 0]

whose uniforms are they, if it’s a military faction I can probably find out for you?

[limburger 21704xp 0]

@wolfie66 are you referring to these guys for the Patricians ?
City Guard

I suspect the colours are chosen to make them distinct from the other factions, because every faction tends to have a unique colour that sets them apart. I wouldn’t know if they are historical accurate at any level and I kind of doubt they are.

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

Them’s the ones.

Qwant searches give me a wide variety of 18th century uniforms, including Italian ones, most of them a combination of blues, reds and whites, but I suspect that information on the specifics of how the uniforms of the city guard of Venice looked in the waning years of the 18th century may lie buried in darkest cyber-Italy……

[onlyonepinman 18060xp 1]

They’re accurate in so far as the Venetian Army wore mid-blue uniforms.  I don’t really think they had a “town guard” as such in the city proper, just a garrison of the wider army.  So it’s probably a fair guess as to what uniforms local soldiery might have worn.

Have  a look here:

http://heitalianwarsofindependence.blogspot.com/2010/05/defending-venice.html

Also worth noting that the Venetian Republic ceased to exist around the end of the 18th century, beyond that it was variously a French and Austrian province before eventually becoming part of an independent Italy so you won’t find anything for Venice beyond around 1800.

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 1]

Close enough, thanks. Guess I’ll go with the official version then.

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