The armorer's art : essays in honor of Stuart Pyhrr

The armorer's art : essays in honor of Stuart Pyhrr / general editor, Donald J. La Rocca.

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Other Authors: LaRocca, Donald J., Nickel, Helmut, Reid, William, 1926-, Eaves, Ian, 1947-, Scalini, Mario, Gaier, Claude, Soler del Campo, Alvaro, Reverseau, Jean-Pierre, Puype, J. P., Forgeng, Jeffrey L., Tavares, Jonathan, Breiding, Dirk H., Terjanian, Pierre
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woonsocket, Rhode Island : Mowbray Publishing, [2014]
Subjects:
Pyhrr, Stuart W.
Armor > History.
Weapons > History.
Festschriften.
Holy Cross Note:Essay p. 107-114 written by Jeffrey Forgeng, Curator of arms and armor, and medieval art at the Worcester Art Museum.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Ronald S. Lauder
  • Portrait of the curator as a young man / Helmut Nickel
  • Stuart Pyhrr, the consumate curator of arms and armor / Donald La Rocca
  • About the adarga : a shield of two faiths, three continents, four cultures and seven centuries / Helmut Nickel
  • A ceremonial soaking : the Eglinton Tournament, 1839 / William Reid
  • Two early examples of armour of proof in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Ian Eaves
  • From helmets to buckets : bascinets and hand artillery of the Aldobrandesco fortress of Piancastagnaio / Mario Scalini
  • The armors of Philip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy : purchases, rentals, gifts, upkeep and transportation / Claude Gaier
  • Putting the King's guns in order : the organization of the Royal Hunting Armory of Madrid / Álvaro Soler Del Campo
  • Rubens, the representation of arms and the Galerie Médicis in the Musée du Louvre / Jean-Pierre Reverseau
  • The Amsterdam ballock daggers / Jan Piet Puype
  • An early Tibetan text on the connoisseurship of swords / Donald J. La Rocca
  • Pietro Monte's exercises and the Medieval science of arms / Jeffrey Forgeng
  • Elements of an Augsburg armor garniture for a Spanish client / Jonathan Tavares
  • A knife with the arms and orders of Duke Friedrich I of Württemberg / Dirk H. Breiding
  • A French Renaissance powder flask in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Pierre Terjanian.

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