Author : Donald J. LaRocca
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fencing
ISBN : 0870998943
Book Description
"The Academy of the Sword centers on an assemblage of rare illustrated books devoted to the subject of fencing and dueling, drawn (with one exception) from the library of the Arms and Armor Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... Accompanying the books and giving vivid impact to their illustrations are a selection of swords, rapiers, parrying daggers, bucklers, and other accoutrements, which follow the chronology of, and changes in, fighting styles depicted in the books"--Introduction, page 3