Identify moveable and static features of armor as well as functional and symbolic surface details and examine similarities and differences between human and animal "armor" through classroom viewing questions. Enhance the lesson with a sketching activity based on an English suit of armor in The Met collection.

Italian " alla tedesca " ("a la German") armour is an Italian armour of 1500 to 1515 with fluting and the Maximilan breast shape. Knee-long tassets were often worn with a bellows-visored sallet. This kind of armour is considered by Oakeshott to be a kind of Schott-Sonnenberg Style armour made by Italians for the German market. [4]

Title: Armor in the style of the 15th century. Date: ca. 1450 and ca. 1850. Culture: Italian. Medium: Steel, leather. Classification: Armor for Man. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1904. Object Number: 04.3.295a–t

Title: Armor. Date: ca. 1500–1510 and later; helmet, ca. 1480. Culture: Italian. Medium: Steel, leather. Dimensions: Wt. 59 lb. 4 oz. (26.88 kg); Wt. of helmet 8 lb. 3 oz. (3718.6 g) Classification: Armor for Man. Credit Line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913. Object Number: 14.25.718a–p

Gathered here, they make up a corpus of worldwide significance, being the most conspicuous collection of Italian armour from the 15th and 16th centuries. In addition to the blow-up of the interior of the sanctuary (reproducing a 19th-century print), to evoke the original room, from whose vaults hangs a crocodile, another one, from the diocesan ...

2024年9月17日 · In Northern Italy, the slowly emerging ‘white armor,’ a style where the armor was no longer covered with fabric, became fashionable. This style would later become popular in France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire. The bascinet gradually fell out of use in favor of the armet across France, Italy, and England throughout the fifteenth century.

'White armour' was a term used synonymously with Italian design, which was innovative in expanding the use of plate armour to cover joints that had been previously protected by mail. The descriptive term white armour referred both to the absence of a surcoat and the absence of decorative trimmings: the rival German style was fluted, both for ...

Shop the full collection in-store and online, and visit the armor that inspired us in Gallery 373 at The Met Fifth Avenue. A rare piece of light-cavalry armor is reimagined as a line of stainless-steel barware.

The largely-unknown art of Piedmont shows plate armor in amazing detail. This ebook compares regional armor styles in North-West Italy, France and Burgundy

Despite of some grotesqueness, Italian armour was true to its sault during more than a century. It gained a reputation of amazing and reliable armour in numerous battles and tournaments, approving in practice, that simplicity is an extreme range of proficiency and last effort of artisan.