Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2020–2022, v.80, no. Rosenheim, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Aude Semat, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, Isabel Stünkel, Zhixin Jason Sun, Pierre Terjanian, Abraham Thomas, Thayer Tolles, Stephan Wolohojian. Pinson, David Pullins, Jessica Regan, Aaron Rio, Imani Roach, Jeff L. Orenstein, Diana Craig Patch, Amelia Peck, Jenny Peruski, Joanne Pillsbury, Stephen C. Miller, Iris Moon, Laura Filloy Nadal, Patricia M. Hyun, Shanay Jhaveri, Ronda Kasl, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Sarah Lepinski, Pengliang Lu, Virginia McBride, Constance McPhee, Asher E. Herdrich, Alison Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Mellissa J. Garfinkel, John Guy, Navina Haidar, Medill Higgins Harvey, Stephanie L. Evans, Jennifer Farrell, Mia Fineman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Amanda B. Carpenter, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Adam Eaker, Maryam Ekhtiar, Helen C. Bambach, Kelly Baum, Alexis Belis, Monika Bincsik, John Byck, Iria Candela, John T. Achi, Denise Allen, Niv Allon, Ian Alteveer, Carmen C. This exhibition, organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The American Federation of Arts, continues a recently initiated joint program of traveling exhibitions intended to share the vast artistic resources of this great museum with other institutions across the country.Ĭontributions by Andrea M. From the thirteenth century on, armor and weapons became the objects of elaborate and colorful decoration, and artists of talent and reputation devoted themselves to their design and execution. Designed to protect the wearer, they also combined comfort and balance with graceful appearance. Such objects were used in wars, tournaments, parades, and the hunt. The objects have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also to present their important function in almost every aspect of chivalric and courtly life during the medieval and later periods. Since there are very few public collections of armor in this country, this exhibition will provide a unique opportunity for the national museum visitor to see a selection of exceptional quality and diversity illustrating the broad history of the subject. They persevered to the end in any enterprise begun.Numbering almost fourteen thousand objects and spanning the thirteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, the Arms and Armor collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most encyclopedic of its kind in the world.įinely designed and decorated arms and armor were always rare, and the majority of existing pieces are preserved in the great ancestral collections of Europe. Knights always kept their faith and never turned their back on a foe. Knights were to fear God and maintain His Church. They always had to obey those who were placed in authority and were never allowed to refuse a challenge from an equal. Knights not only vowed to protect the weak but also vowed to guard the honor of all fellow knights. Knights were required to tell the truth at all times and always respect the honour of women. Knights vowed to be loyal, generous, and "of noble bearing". Knights not only had to be strong but they were also extremely disciplined and were expected to use their power to protect the weak and defenseless. All knights needed to have the strength and skills to fight wars in the Middle Ages. The Knight's Code of Chivalry was a moral system that stated all knights should protect others who can not protect themselves, such as widows, children, and elders.
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