Handbook of Arms and Armor, European and Oriental
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Armor
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Armor
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : David G. Alexander
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588395707
Armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of the faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. The finest arms were made by master craftsmen working with the leading designers, goldsmiths, and jewelers, whose work transformed utilitarian military equipment into courtly works of art. This book reveals the diversity and artistic quality of one of the most important and encyclopedic collections of its kind in the West. The Metropolitan Museum's holdings span ten centuries and include representative pieces from almost every Islamic culture from Spain to the Caucasus. The collection includes rare early works, among them the oldest documented Islamic sword, and is rich in helmets and body armor, decorated with calligraphy and arabesques, that were worn in Iran and Anatolia in the late fifteenth century. Other masterpieces include a jeweled short sword (yatagan) with a blade of "watered" steel that comes from the court of Süleyman the Magnificent, a seventeenth-century gold-inlaid armor associated with Shah Jahan, and two gold-inlaid flintlock firearms belonging to the guard of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Presenting 126 objects, each handsomely photographed and richly documented with a detailed description and discussion of its technical, historical, and artistic importance, this overview of the Met's holdings is supplemented by an introductory essay on the formation of the collection, and appendixes on iconography and on Turkman-style armor.
Author : Robert Elgood
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
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Author : Francine Giese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004412646
The present volume offers a collection of essays that examines the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of Islamic art, situated in Central and Eastern Europe that until now have received little attention from scholars. Special attention is given to the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels, whose important, still largely unstudied collection of Islamic art is now preserved in the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Switzerland. Contributors to the volume include young researchers and established scholars from Western and Eastern Europe and beyond: Roger Nicholas Balsiger, Moya Carey, Valentina Colonna, Francine Giese, Hélène Guérin, Barbara Karl, Katrin Kaufmann, Sarah Keller, Agnieszka Kluczewska Wójcik, Inessa Kouteinikova, Axel Langer, Maria Medvedeva, Ágnes Sebestyén, Alban von Stockhausen, Ariane Varela Braga, Mercedes Volait. Les contributions de l’ouvrage examinent le mécanisme et les stratégies relatifs à la collection, la présentation et l’appropriation des arts de l’Islam au XIXe siècle et début du XXe siècle. Elles mettent l’accent sur des collections situées en Europe centrale et orientale, lesquelles ont été peu étudiées jusqu’à présent. Une attention particulière est dédiée à la figure du collectionneur Suisse Henri Moser Charlottenfels, dont les objets se trouvent aujourd’hui au Bernisches Historisches Museum (Suisse) et qui ont été de même peu étudiés. Les textes émanent de jeunes chercheurs comme de chercheurs confirmés, basés en Europe occidentale et orientale, et au-delà.
Author : George Cameron Stone
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486131297
DIVIndispensable resource employs alphabetized, easy-to-use format. Arquebuses, flintlocks, and other antique guns appear here, along with German armor, Roman short swords, Turkish crossbows, much more. Over 4,500 individual photos and drawings, 875 detailed figures. /div
Author : Anthony North
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
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Author : Frank David Boynton
Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1904
Category : New York (State)
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Author : Vincenzo Clarizia
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803270330
This book presents a detailed overview of the firearms used in Oman over the last four centuries. Portable firearms, rifles and cannons are all discussed in detail with supporting illustrations. The weapons described in this book are mostly from the National Museum Oman and Bait al Zubair Museum in Muscat.
Author : H. Russell Robinson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486418189
Detailed, scholarly study, enhanced with over 400 illustrations, surveys defensive armor of Persia, Turkey, India, China, Ceylon, the Philippines, Korea, Tibet, and other regions. Splendid overview brings together much previously inaccessible material.