A celebration of more than a decade of collecting by the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Arms and Armor since the reinstallation of its permanent galleries in 1991. The new acquisitions complement and build upon the Museum's encyclopaedic collection, which totals more than 14,000 objects from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Fifty-eight of the most important recent acquisitions are featured in this volume, including the richly decorated armour and weapons of two French kings, the king of Sweden, and a future king of England, several members of the ruling Medici family of Florence, a hero of the American Revolution, two sultans of Turkey, and the Tokugawa shoguns of Japan. The texts provide insight into the artistic, historical and technical aspects of this special field.
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This book accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 4, 2002, to June 29, 2003.
This book accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 4, 2002, to June 29, 2003.
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Stuart W. Pyhrr is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Curator in Charge, Donald J. LaRocca is Curator, and Morihiro Ogawa is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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"eye educator" full of great items in high quality photos and great written details like: armor testing by firing a bullet on it and using it as a "quality test mark". left a smile on my face.
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This publication and the exhibition it accompanies chronicle more than a decade of collecting by the Department of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, New York, Rogers Fund, Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of William, Metropolitan Museum, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc, Dong Son, Uda Kunimitsu, United States, Middle Ages, The Collection of Giovanni New!
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This publication and the exhibition it accompanies chronicle more than a decade of collecting by the Department of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, New York, Rogers Fund, Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of William, Metropolitan Museum, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc, Dong Son, Uda Kunimitsu, United States, Middle Ages, The Collection of Giovanni New!
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- Arms and Armor: Essays by Stephen V. Grancsay on page 13, and Back Matter
- Colt Heritage : The Official History of Colt Firearms from 1836 to the Present by R.L. Wilson in Back Matter
- Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries by Stuart W. Pyhrr in Back Matter
- THE ART AND TRADITION OF THE ZULOAGAS: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection by James D. Lavin in Back Matter
- Steel Canvas: The Art of American Arms by R. L. Wilson in Back Matter
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- Techniques Of Medieval Armour Reproduction: The 14th Century by Brian R. Price in Back Matter
- Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology by Edward Tenner in Front Matter
- Medieval Warfare: A Bibliographical Guide by Everett U. Crosby on page 73
- Brassey's, Book of Body Armor by Anthony Hall in Back Matter
- European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues) by Ruth Butler on page 33
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