
Arms and Armor
Notable Acquisitions 1991-2002
Yale University Press
Published on 11. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-300-09876-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book celebrates 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 encyclopedic 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 armor 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 specialized field. Many of these important and intriguing objects are previously unpublished.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
32 illustrations, 48 colour pl
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09876-1 (9780300098761)
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Persons
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.
Author
Department of Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art