Handbook of Arms and Armor, European and Oriental: Including the William H. Riggs Collection (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144006816X ISBN 13 : 9781440068164

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2010

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I INTRODUCTION TH E casual visitor to a modern museum is apt to know little of ancient Arms and Armor, and he may not realize that among connoisseurs these objects rank high in the scale of 6bjets d'art -with ceramics, enamels, bronzes, even paintings. For one reason, unless he happens to know the famous collections in a few European capitals, he has probably seen few specimens of armor of good quality. And he does not take into account that the art of the armorer, like the art of the painter or sculptor, can not be well appreciated from poor examples. On the other hand, the every-day visitor to a museum usually associates arms and armor with the elaborately developed panoplies of the sixteenth century-of the time of the Italian wars and of the Field of the Cloth of Gold-and he pictures armor as a ceremonial equipment, etched, gilded, and embossed, worn as often in the court as in the camp, when swords were richly wrought, incrusted with silver and gold, and when halberds, which so

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PAGE; List of Illustrationsix; Handbook:; I Introductioni; II The Present Collection and its; Arrangement9; HI Earliest Arms and Armor 20; IV Arms and Armor of the Bronze Age; and Classical Antiquity 22; V The Early Centuries of the Chris-; tian Era32; VI Chain-Mail and Mediaeval Armor 35; VII The Period of Transition from; Chain - Mail to Plate - Armor (1200-1400)42; VIII The Period of Plate-Armor and; Fire-Arms (1400-1780) 45; A Armor of the Fifteenth Century 46; B Arms of the Fifteenth Century 54; C Armor of the Maximilian Period; (1500-1530)59; D Jousting Armor63; E Arms of the Early Decades of the; Sixteenth Century 67 vii; Vili table of contents; PAGE; F Armor of the Middle and Late; Sixteenth Century 69 G Swords and Daggers of the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 73; H Pole-Arms75; I Bows, Arrows, and Crossbows 78 J Fire-Arms of the Fifteenth to the; Eighteenth Century 82 K Arms and

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 144006816X
• ISBN 13: 9781440068164
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310