The armorer's art
Subtitle: essays in honor of Stuart Pyhrr
By: Donald J. La Rocca, general editor
Contributors: 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; Pyhrr, Stuart W., honouree
Publisher: Mowbray Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781931464673
Subjects: Weapons; Armor; History
Table of contents: title: Preface / Ronald S. Lauder; title: Portrait of the curator as a young man / Helmut Nickel; title: Stuart Pyhrr, the consumate curator of arms and armor / Donald La Rocca; title: About the adarga : a shield of two faiths, three continents, four cultures and seven centuries / Helmut Nickel; title: A ceremonial soaking : the Eglinton Tournament, 1839 / William Reid; title: Two early examples of armour of proof in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Ian Eaves; title: From helmets to buckets : bascinets and hand artillery of the Aldobrandesco fortress of Piancastagnaio / Mario Scalini; title: The armors of Philip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy : purchases, rentals, gifts, upkeep and transportation / Claude Gaier; title: Putting the King's guns in order : the organization of the Royal Hunting Armory of Madrid / Álvaro Soler Del Campo; title: Rubens, the representation of arms and the Galerie Médicis in the Musée du Louvre / Jean-Pierre Reverseau; title: The Amsterdam ballock daggers / Jan Piet Pyupe; title: An early Tibetan text on the connoisseurship of swords / Donald J. La Rocca; title: Pietro Monte's exercises and the Medieval science of arms / Jeffrey Forgeng; title: Elements of an Augsburg armor garniture for a Spanish client / Jonathan Tavares; title: A knife with the arms and orders of Duke Friedrich I of Württemberg / Dirk H. Breiding; title: A French Renaissance powder flask in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Pierre Terjanian.